Illegal child labour is being used to supply cocoa beans to Cadbury – Britain’s favourite chocolate brand. #Dispatches has been undercover in Ghana where children as young as 10 have been working gruelling hours to supply cocoa beans to Cadbury.
“Did it hurt?” Young children bear scars from the dangerous work they do using sharp knives and machetes on coca farms linked to Cadbury. Other children are seen struggling with heavy loads, long hours and dangerous tools.
@C4Dispatches While Mondelēz removed all of their brands off of their website to prevent people from trying to boycott them, here's a nice little chart if you decide to do so like I am:
@C4Dispatches Absolutely disgusted, especially seeing this on the packaging. I’d no idea at all. The link cocoalife.org has me fuming
@C4Dispatches A wicked world we live in, kids denied education so rich countries can drink hot chocolate
@C4Dispatches @CadburyUK @CadburyWorld sanctioning child labour. 👎🏽
@C4Dispatches Supply chain transparency isn’t an optional extra. @networks_trade is building tools to enable communities to make a difference
@C4Dispatches Imagine if Cadbury raised wages and improved working conditions employed adults and built schools instead Instead of taking in vast profits
@C4Dispatches Thanks for highlighting this. Just wondering if you realise that history repeats itself. When will we learn 🥺 #Dispatches #cadbury #mondelez britishandirishhistory.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/wil…
@C4Dispatches @CadburyUK. ‘Prohibiting’ child labour doesn’t prevent it. We actively find and remediate child labour whilst addressing the root cause - poverty. That's why paying a higher price is so crucial. Happy to show you our homework - are you in?
@C4Dispatches It now seems almost impossible to buy ethical chocolate. From what I last heard, Mars are still doing business in Russia, as are Nestle (which I avoid anyway.) Now Cadbury ... Genuine question: which reasonably priced brands are OK? Green and Blacks is owned by Mondelez ...
@C4Dispatches @Hyperion_PSN So fed up with this wicked world 🌎 terrible
@C4Dispatches The world is ruled by greed from ceos shareholders and investors who penslave the world at the expense of ordinary people who just want to make a living and provide for there family. It's all about making money for people who do nothing by paying as little as possible
@C4Dispatches Will you keep eating chocolate made from child labor? Yes, you will. You are not able to do anything about it, and if you could, you would not. There is a name for that. This is from 2012, that is 20 years ago. youtu.be/7Vfbv6hNeng
@C4Dispatches @Val_BB I'm sure the founders of Bournville are spinning in their graves that this is happening. From a company that used to stand for the wellbeing of workers, this is appalling. I'll be boycotting Cadbury until they stop this heinous practice.
@C4Dispatches That should read #Ghana exposed. My sense is you have no control over Ghanaian human rights laws , government ,societies , or families. Realistically , the government of Ghana is profiting from Cadbury, did you get their interview?
@C4Dispatches Glad to say I stopped buying Cadbury when Kraft bought them out.
@C4Dispatches Long way from its Quakers roots, sure it has absolutely nothing to do with Kraft😂🤣
@C4Dispatches Why Cadbury anyway. I live in Ghana, I've worked on cocoa farms, but there's no connection with Cadbury, maybe the government sells to them, that's ok with me if that's your accusation but they don't control what goes on in the farms
@C4Dispatches @Channel4News Thank you for exposing this
@C4Dispatches @TonysChocoUK_IE buy your chocolate from here 🍫 the bar is divided up unequally to show reality and they pay farmers a lot more to put an end to child slavery 💰
@C4Dispatches @itza_amelie NO Cadbury chocolates for the grandkids this Easter or any other time !
@C4Dispatches But why only Cadbury? Ghana doesn't supply cocoa beans to only Cadbury. Why the targeted smear campaign??
@C4Dispatches @Ms_Lamidee Using the poor for hard labour and enriching themselves. Africa countries need to do better and not let the west continue to use them.
@C4Dispatches Big corporations like Mars, Nestle, Cadbury etc claim to be opposed to slavery and indentured servitude and child labor but then turn a blind eye to slavery in supply chains to maximise profits. All should be banned from the market until they can guarantee slavery free produce.
@C4Dispatches The Cocoa farmers hire labourers to do this work who in turn bring their own children along to help. In as much as child labour is unacceptable, let's write the correct script. There is no way Cadbury can control this... Gov't is doing its best but it will take time
@C4Dispatches And this is why I'd rather pay more for chocolate and cocoa products that bears the international responsibly sourced cocoa logo.
@C4Dispatches @WeePrefab In other news the government is in the process of selling off Channel Four because they're too woke or something.
@C4Dispatches This is extreme exploitation of cocoa producing countries. I have been on field with cocoa farmers for research studies for almost 3 years and we know this tactics u use. Convincing vulnerable farmers to send this children to the farms for this footages for some amount of money