Slaves to chocolate: thousands of boys toil on Ivory Coast cacao farms.

Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | April 26, 2002 | Copyright

YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast -- Mmmm ... chocolate. Sweet, mouthwatering, delicious. Chocolate is so yummy that Americans spend $13 billion a year buying chocolate cookies, chocolate candies, chocolate ice cream, chocolate cakes, and other chocolate treats.

But the story of chocolate is anything but sweet. According to Free the Slaves, a nonprofit group based in Washington, D.C., thousands of young boys toil under slave-like conditions on cacao plantations in the West African nation of Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) to harvest the cacao (k [inverted e]-KAY-oh) bean, the ...

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