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In this episode, Mewilec talks about the exploitative history (and present) of the cocoa industry in West Africa.
References
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263855/cocoa-bean-production-worldwide-by-region/#:~:text=About%2070%20percent%20of%20the,the%20world%C2%B4s%20cocoa.
NESTLE USA, INC. v. DOE ET AL.
F. N. HOWES, D.Sc., The Early Introduction of Cocoa to West Africa, African Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 180, July 1946, Pages 152–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a093508
Terry G. Powis; W. Jeffrey Hurst; María del Carmen Rodríguez; Ponciano Ortíz C.; Michael Blake; David Cheetham; Michael D. Coe; John G. Hodgson (December 2007). "Oldest chocolate in the New World". Antiquity. 81 (314). ISSN 0003-598X (Retrieved 9 February 2022)
Timothy Walker (2007) Slave Labor and Chocolate in Brazil: The Culture of Cacao Plantations in Amazonia and Bahia (17th–19th Centuries), Food and Foodways, 15:1-2, 75-106, DOI: 10.1080/07409710701260214
https://kathleeniscookinginmexico.wordpress.com/tag/chocolate-child-slavery/#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20years%20ago%2C%20Mesoamerican,supply%20European%20demand%20for%20chocolate.
https://www.antislavery.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1_cocoa_report_2004.pdf
https://www.jurist.org/news/2021/06/us-supreme-court-blocks-child-slavery-lawsuit-against-nestle-cargill/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-politicalscience/chapter/the-american-legal-system/
https://archive.crin.org/en/library/publications/cote-divoire-national-laws.html#:~:text=Legislation%3A%20There%20is%20no%20comprehensive,various%20Codes%2C%20Acts%20and%20Decrees.
https://thevarsity.ca/2022/02/06/opinion-mm-remodel-mars-child-slavery-lawsuit/
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By mewilecIn this episode, Mewilec talks about the exploitative history (and present) of the cocoa industry in West Africa.
References
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263855/cocoa-bean-production-worldwide-by-region/#:~:text=About%2070%20percent%20of%20the,the%20world%C2%B4s%20cocoa.
NESTLE USA, INC. v. DOE ET AL.
F. N. HOWES, D.Sc., The Early Introduction of Cocoa to West Africa, African Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 180, July 1946, Pages 152–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a093508
Terry G. Powis; W. Jeffrey Hurst; María del Carmen Rodríguez; Ponciano Ortíz C.; Michael Blake; David Cheetham; Michael D. Coe; John G. Hodgson (December 2007). "Oldest chocolate in the New World". Antiquity. 81 (314). ISSN 0003-598X (Retrieved 9 February 2022)
Timothy Walker (2007) Slave Labor and Chocolate in Brazil: The Culture of Cacao Plantations in Amazonia and Bahia (17th–19th Centuries), Food and Foodways, 15:1-2, 75-106, DOI: 10.1080/07409710701260214
https://kathleeniscookinginmexico.wordpress.com/tag/chocolate-child-slavery/#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20years%20ago%2C%20Mesoamerican,supply%20European%20demand%20for%20chocolate.
https://www.antislavery.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1_cocoa_report_2004.pdf
https://www.jurist.org/news/2021/06/us-supreme-court-blocks-child-slavery-lawsuit-against-nestle-cargill/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-politicalscience/chapter/the-american-legal-system/
https://archive.crin.org/en/library/publications/cote-divoire-national-laws.html#:~:text=Legislation%3A%20There%20is%20no%20comprehensive,various%20Codes%2C%20Acts%20and%20Decrees.
https://thevarsity.ca/2022/02/06/opinion-mm-remodel-mars-child-slavery-lawsuit/