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Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

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An edition of Bitter Chocolate (2006)

Bitter Chocolate

Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

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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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English
Pages
336

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Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
2017, New Press, The
in English
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Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
2016, University of Queensland Press
in English
Cover of: Bitter Chocolate
Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
2016, University of Queensland Press
in English
Cover of: Bitter Chocolate
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
in English
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Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
September 25, 2007, Vintage Canada
Paperback in English
Cover of: Bitter Chocolate
Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
October 10, 2006, Random House Canada
Hardcover in English

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Library of Congress
HD9200.A2 O34 2006

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
336

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7698348M
Internet Archive
bitterchocolatei0000offc
ISBN 10
0679313192
ISBN 13
9780679313199
LCCN
2006497043
OCLC/WorldCat
70062583
Library Thing
4921590
Goodreads
727586

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