Halloween Means Trick, Not Treat, for Child Slaves
As you give trick-or-treaters candy this weekend, let’s not forget the devil inside the candy wrapper. Chocolate business profits come in good part from child slaves in Africa. The United States has the power to end this evil, just not the political will to act.
Seven big food makers – Hershey, Mars, Mondelēz, Nestlé, Cargill, Barry Callebaut, and Olam – make most of the profits from enslaved children’s labor.
The Biden administration has the power to seize every one of the cocoa beans that will soon begin arriving in Philadelphia and a few other American ports from the 2021 harvest in West Africa. Products of child labor and slaves have been contraband since at least 1930, which means Customs and Border Protection can — and should — seize the beans. Yet no president from Hoover to Trump enforced the law.
President Barack Obama in 2016 signed a new law strengthening the power to seize products of forced labor. President Bill Clinton signed a 2000 law to help end child enslavement by boosting the 1930 contraband law. Still, a law not enforced is no law at all.
https://www.dcreport.org/2021/10/31/halloween-means-trick-not-treat-for-child-slaves/