2.3 million children work in the cocoa fields of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.

These children are vulnerable to brutal labor practices, including trafficking and slavery.

Candy companies--including but not limited to Nestlé, Hershey, Cargill, ADM, and Barry Callebout--have admitted accountability and promised to remedy this situation. Sadly, 17 years has passed since this agreement and little has changed.

Additionally, the abject poverty these farmers are forced to endure in has also resulted in deforestation of sensitive and important national forests.

The candy industry is a US 70-billion-dollar industry. It should have changed.

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