Child Labour in the Chocolate Industry. [Last Week Tonight with John Oliver] (208 views, 0 replies)
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“All these (big chocolate producing) companies will say that they’re concerned about child labour and that they’ve spent a lot of money trying to fix it” – an estimated $150m by 2019. “But that’s over 18 years, and while they were collecting $103bn in sales annually,” Oliver noted – 0.1% of one year’s sales.
Child labour is “an open secret” in the supply chain, Oliver concluded, though he conceded that abolishing it is “really complicated. Child labour in this region is caused by a myriad of issues from poor infrastructure to limited access to education but to a significant extent it is caused by poverty – a poverty that is actively perpetuated by these chocolate companies.
And if they really want to remedy things, a good first step would be to pay farmers more.
Source: HBO