A shocking expose of the little-known corruption and exploitation found at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry--blood diamond for chocolate. ""It's the measure of a vast gulf between the children who eat chocolate on their way to school in North America and those in Africa] who must, from childhood, work to survive...between the hand that picks the bean and the hand that unwraps the candy bar.""--from the introduction to "Bitter Chocolate" Whether part of a child's Halloween haul or the contents of a heart-shaped box, chocolate is synonymous with pleasure. But behind the sweet image is a dark history of exploitation. "Bitter Chocolate" traces the fascinating origins and evolution of chocolate from the banquet table of Montezuma's Aztec court in the early sixteenth century to the bustling factories of Hershey, Cadbury, and Mars today, revealing that slavery and injustice have always been key ingredients. The heart of the book takes place in West Africa inside the Ivory Coast--the world's leading producer of cocoa beans--where, as Off discovers, profits from the multibillion-dollar chocolate industry fuel bloody civil war and widespread corruption. Faced with pressure from a crushing "cocoa cartel" demanding more beans for less money, poor farmers have turned to the cheapest labor pool possible: thousands of indentured children who pick the beans but have never themselves known the taste of chocolate. "Bitter Chocolate" is an absorbing social history, a passionate investigative account, and a shocking expose of an industry that has institutionalized misery as it indulges our whims.
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