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This book is a shocking exposé of the little-known corruption and exploitation found at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industryblood diamond for chocolate. Bitter Chocolate traces the fascinating origins and evolution of chocolate from the banquet table of Montezuma's Aztec court in the early sixteenth century to the bustling factories of Hershey, Cadbury, and Mars today, revealing that slavery and injustice have always been key ingredients. The heart of the book takes place in West Africa inside the Ivory Coastthe world's leading producer of cocoa beanswhere, as Off discovers, profits from the multibillion-dollar chocolate industry fuel bloody civil war and widespread corruption. Faced with pressure from a crushing "cocoa cartel" demanding more beans for less money, poor farmers have turned to the cheapest labor pool possible: thousands of indentured children who pick the beans but have never themselves known the taste of chocolate. - Publisher.
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Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
2016, University of Queensland Press
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2016, University of Queensland Press
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Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
Mar 04, 2014, The New Press
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Bitter chocolate: the dark side of the world's most seductive sweet
2008, New Press
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Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
September 25, 2007, Vintage Canada
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Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
October 10, 2006, Random House Canada
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