According to a 2019 report by the Associated Press, an estimated 1.9 million children were engaged in forced labor on the Ivory Coast alone.
Major U.S. chocolate manufacturers are aware of this. And yet you will find no mention of the potential use of child slave labor in their supply chain on their pretty packaging.
But Hershey’s, Nestle and Mars detailed on their websites their efforts to try to reduce slave labor in their supply chain. Despite many U.S.
companies claiming to put an end to the atrocities of child slave labor involved in the manufacturing of their product, the Chocolate Scorecard, which conducts an annual assessment, has found that some of the biggest U.S.