Dark secret unwrapped for Kiwi chocolate lovers

Dark secret unwrapped for Kiwi chocolate lovers
A child labourer in Ghana. (Image: Channel 4)
Murray Jones
Your child’s Easter egg this year may have come from ingredients farmed by someone younger than them, BusinessDesk can reveal. Long-running New Zealand favourite Cadbury uses cocoa sourced from Ghana, where its parent Mondelez has been exposed. Mondelez paid farmers less than £2 (NZ$3.79) a day, forcing many to put their children to work in order to earn enough to eat.Britain's Channel 4 Dispatches programme visited farms in Ghana used by Mondelez, where children as young as 10 are using large sharp machetes to open cocoa p...

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