Travels of a Chocolate Bar

For this exercise, buy a bar of chocolate and then spend 30-40 minutes researching the following questions on the Internet: - What are the ingredients? Where in the world do they come from? - What are the working and living conditions of the people who produce the cocoa? - How is it produced? Are child laborers involved? • How do the producers get the cocoa to market? • How are the prices set? • Which international corporations dominate the chocolate trade? Who regulates it? • How much did you pay for your bar? • Are there hidden costs that are not included in the price you paid? Consider underpayment of labor; environmental impact; government subsidies that are direct (to the company) and indirect (infrastructure such as roads, ports, bridges, and water systems); and the healthcare costs created by harvesting,  transporting, processing, or eating the food. How are these costs obscured? • What efforts have been made to eliminate child labor? What are the obstacles to achieving this goal? What progress has been made?      

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