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These are the countries that mainly provide cocoa beans: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, Cameroon. . About 43% of the cocoa beans from the Ivory Coast come from the labor of children.

by Janet Jargman

These children are often sold to the cocoa bean farms in hope of a better life. There are employment opportunities, but they are not paid enough and are often starved. They are beaten if they drop cocoa beans. Even though the children plant, pick and prepare the cocoa beans, they have never had the opportunity to taste it. Hersey's M&M's and Mars controls two thirds of the chocolate candy market in the United States, making it a $13 billion industry. Many companies say that they are unable to help the children within the child labor plantations. This is hard to believe since most large cocoa companies make so much money.

Source: http://www.globalexchange.org/cocoa/

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