Chocolate

My enemy, my nemesis, my kryptonite, is no longer a struggle for me now. Now that I have found out about the cocoa growing business. Sixty percent of the cocoa beans for chocolate are grown in Ivory Coast. I have just found out that they use slave labor to harvest this crop. By slave labor I mean children as well as adults working from morning to evening, for little pay in horrendously bad conditions---slavery. I was watching MSNBC when I found out this fact. I am not one for getting all my facts from the Internet, but let's face it, it is more assessable when you trying to make a quick point. With that being stated here is an article that explains the chocolate slave labor. I know this article is dated, but it gives a small overview of a big problem. So I'm done with chocolate at this time. And I'm not about to search the world for fair trade chocolate. If I so happen to see it fine, but I'm not going to go searching for it. Now I am vegan, so far so good!!;)