Children As Young As Ten Years Old Are Forced To Work On Dangerous, Back-Breaking Cocoa Farms. Tell Hershey's To Make Their Chocolate Without Child Labor! Sign Now Carl, Chocolate shouldn't leave a bad taste in your mouth, but right now, that's hard to avoid. Why? Evidence shows that more than 2 million child laborers as young as 10 years old work on cocoa farms in West Africa, helping to produce a significant amount of the chocolate consumed in the U.S. That includes chocolate produced for one of the world's largest candy companies, Hershey's. As far as child labor goes, cocoa work is considered some of the worst work. Daily tasks include deploying dangerous pesticides, chopping brush and cocoa pods with machetes, and lifting excessively heavy bags. Impoverished kids who are sent to work on these farms are subjected to body-breaking work and do not attend school. Many of these children are also trafficked and forced to lie about their ages under the watchful eyes of coercive farmers. Sign your name today and demand Hershey's stop making its chocolate with cocoa grown using child labor! For two decades, chocolate companies have set goals to eradicate child labor on these farms, but they come up short each time. We're calling on Hershey's to invest more of the billions in profits it makes — all on the backs of underage workers — to put a stop to this unacceptable exploitation once and for all. We demand a guarantee that its sweets are made without child labor, or Hershey's won't be getting a dime out of us. Stand with children who just want to lead healthy lives! Tell Hershey's: Get child labor out of our chocolate! Thank you for all that you do,   Corey H. The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Child labor is not sweet. Sign the petition to demand that Hershey's make their chocolate without child labor!

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