It’s an open secret in the chocolate industry: Hershey's buys up cocoa harvested using child labour!
Even worse… many of the farms are certified by Rainforest Alliance as fair and responsibly sourced. But when investigators turned up, they found children heaving heavy bags of cocoa beans and working in gruelling conditions.
Branding child labour as ‘sustainable’ is a disaster…So we’re going to help sue Hershey’s and Rainforest Alliance to make sure this stops.
If enough people reading this email chip in, we can help conduct necessary investigations, build up the legal expertise needed to win this landmark lawsuit – and change the cocoa industry forever. Can you help end cocoa child labour?
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CAL files suit against Hershey and Rainforest Alliance
Corporate Accountability Lab. 2 November 2021.
Corporate Accountability Lab. 2 November 2021.