While kids in America will be happily running the streets Friday
night, hitting up neighbors for candy, a few will be instead handing
their neighbors a piece of fair trade chocolate and a card detailing
some of the abusive practices of the chocolate industry. It's a
"reverse trick or treating" program through Global Exhange.
According to this post on Chow,
the card reads, in part, “Like Halloween, chocolate should be a source
of joy for all children, including those in countries where cocoa is
grown. Unfortunately, that is not the case today. Despite six years of
promises from major chocolate manufacturers little has been done to
tackle the documented problem of forced child labor on many farms that
supply their cocoa. Moreover,
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