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The first American-made chocolate using fully traceable Fairtrade beans from West Africa.

2023-03-16 21:50:17

This case is about the slavery of youth in the chocolate industry. Chocolate is made from West African farms, especially high-quality cocoa beans cultivated in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. These account for about half of the world's chocolate. Slavery in the chocolate industry poses many questions including organizational, corporate, and personal ethics. Here I will explain the problem I observed in this situation. The first problem is the slavery of children, which is said to have been abducted from various villages.

Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, a species of tropical plants, and most of the world's cacao production is currently concentrated on the African continent. Man knows chocolate for a long time. Long before Columbus departed the mainland, Central Americans began cultivating the first batch of chocolate. It was later introduced to the Europeans by the conqueror Cortes who first encountered it in the United States. Europeans are producing modern chocolate, now it is one of the most popular food in the world.

It is well known that chocolate is made from cacao beans. And it is chosen from cacao sheath. Cocoa farm has seen many acres of land, especially in West Africa and Ghana. This is the reason why these places are known as the world's largest producer of cocoa beans, especially "Forastero" varieties. Compared with the coffee bean 'Robusta', this type of coffee beans are the best quality coffee beans on the market. For Forastero, this is one of the most commonly used beans in chocolate manufacturing. The ratio is different, but the basics for making various types of chocolate bars are the same. There are two types of cacao beans, Criollo and Trinitario. They are very special for their different flavors, they have various versions such as "single source", etc. These were found in several parts of South America and Africa.