How much chocolate do you eat in a week?

America is the world's largest chocolate consumer.

In 2000, the US imported 729,000 tons of cocoa beans/ processed products, ate 3.3 billions pounds of chocolate and spent $13 billion on it

also in 2000...

The US State Department's Human Rights Report acknowledged that some 15,000 children between the ages of 9 and 12 have been sold into forced labor on cotton, coffee and cocoa plantations in the northern Ivory Coast in recent years

Resourses

Stop the Traffik - USA West Coast

GOOD CHOCOLATE GUIDE

Easter Egg Poster Campaign

Chocolate Lesson Plan for Schools

Chaga and the Chocolate Factory - (To be used with the lesson for schools)

Chocolate Fact Sheet

Easter Powerpoint Presentation

Traffik Free Guarantee

We want all chocolate companies to be able to stamp onto their candy wrappers a guarantee that the cocoa beans have not been harvested by trafficked labor. We can then chose to eat chocolate with a Traffik Free Guarantee.

Projects main page

For a full list of our human trafficking resources

Human Trafficking Resources Page