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Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation

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Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation

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Children in Ghana, some as young as 5, are working cocoa fields and wielding machetes instead of attending school.
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    Literally every major food company does stuff like this. It’s one of the countless problems with unchecked capitalism.

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      Whether you intend to or not, you’re suggesting everyone should blow this off and ignore it.

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        No, I’m suggesting seizing the means of production.

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