Halloween Chocolate: More Trick than Treat?

"Americans spend nearly $7 billion on Halloween. Mostly on candy, and mostly on chocolate.  But even milk chocolate has a dark side. Most chocolate today comes from West Africa, where small landholders grow more than 3 million metric tons of the fruit of the cacao tree. To turn that fruit into chocolate requires labor—and much of that labor is performed by children."

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Halloween Chocolate: More Trick than Treat?: Scientific American Podcast
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=halloween-chocolate-more-trick-than-11-10-30