Eating chocolate with no regrets?
By DW
16 May 2022 |
1:15 pm
People in Germany consume an average eleven kilos of chocolate each per year. But few think about the conditions under which cocoa beans are farmed. Child labor has been a problem for decades. But why? And what can be done about it?
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