child slavery is bad (except when we want chocolate)!

<p>In this episode, Mewilec talks about the exploitative history (and present) of the cocoa industry in West Africa.</p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/263855/cocoa-bean-production-worldwide-by-region/%23:~:text=About%2070%20percent%20of%20the,the%20world%C2%B4s%20cocoa.">https://www.statista.com/statistics/263855/cocoa-bean-production-worldwide-by-region/#:~:text=About%2070%20percent%20of%20the,the%20world%C2%B4s%20cocoa.</a></p> <p>NESTLE USA, INC. v. DOE ET AL.</p> <p>F. N. HOWES, D.Sc., The Early Introduction of Cocoa to West Africa, <em>African Affairs</em>, Volume 45, Issue 180, July 1946, Pages 152–153, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a093508">https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a093508</a></p> <p>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). <a href="http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/powis/index.html">"Oldest chocolate in the New World"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquity_(journal)" title="Antiquity (journal)"><em>Antiquity</em></a>. <strong>81</strong> (314). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0003-598X">0003-598X</a> (Retrieved 9 February 2022)</p> <p>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: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710701260214">10.1080/07409710701260214</a></p> <p><a href="https://kathleeniscookinginmexico.wordpress.com/tag/chocolate-child-slavery/%23:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20years%20ago%2C%20Mesoamerican,supply%20European%20demand%20for%20chocolate.">https://kathleeniscookinginmexico.wordpress.com/tag/chocolate-child-slavery/#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20years%20ago%2C%20Mesoamerican,supply%20European%20demand%20for%20chocolate.</a></p> <p><a href="https:/