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via Green America:

“Valentine’s Day chocolate with child labor, deforestation, and toxic pesticides? No, thanks! Take a pass on big name chocolate and take action instead.

After decades of corporate promises to end child labor in cocoa, there has been very little progress, AND exposure to toxic pesticides has increased. Despite chocolate being a $100 billion per year industry, cocoa farmers make less $1 per day. This inequality and destruction must end.

Green America is calling on the largest chocolate companies, including Nestlé, Hershey, and Godiva, to end child labor, pay farmers a living income, rapidly reduce pesticide usage, and stop deforestation!

As it is currently operating, the cocoa industry is not sustainable. Chocolate must benefit those who grow the cocoa beans and the land that allows cocoa to grow must be treated with respect.

Sign the petition today demanding Nestlé, Hershey, Mars, Lindt, and others put an end to child labor, deforestation, and large-scale pesticide usage.

Thank you for all that you do,

Charlotte Tate
Labor Justice Campaigns Director
Green America

P.S. Your support means we can do even more to reverse climate change and protect the future for people and the planet. Please contribute today.”

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P.P.S. from Laban Johnson of WorldChocolateDirectory.org: 

“WorldChocolateDirectory.org stands against child labor, deforestation, and any other socially irresponsible, unsustainable business and farming practices which hurt the chocolate industry and threaten the livelihoods of chocolatiers and cacao farmers anywhere in the world.”

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