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Child slavery - a secret ingredient in Valentine's Day chocolates? listen

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Tags: Chocolate industry, Cote D'Ivoire, Stetson, Africa, Bob Dole

As Valentine’s Day looms, those who celebrate it may venture into a supermarket and pick up a heart-shaped cardboard box of chocolates. Most chocolate enthusiasts probably don’t know there’s a brutal side to those little sweets that have become so synonymous with love this time of year. Human trafficking plays a key role in the multi-billion dollar cocoa industry, but there’s little will on the part of corporations to do anything about it.

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