Bloomberg Businessweek
Dec 23, 2022 - 7 min
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Is this the beginning of the end of the historic exploitation in the chocolate industry? Chocolate has been coveted for its richness and complexities for thousands of years. However, although there has been an attempt to address the significant ethical problems that have ravaged the industry, inequalities persist, and many companies still cannot guarantee that their chocolate is 100% slave-free. While there's no way around the labour-intensive and time-consuming process behind making it, Kareem Arthur discusses the growing movement that promotes ethical chocolate beyond Fairtrade and addresses the bad practices within cocoa production that still haunts the landscape.