Fair trade chocolate

Have you ever thought about where the chocolate you're eating has come from? Have you ever thought about the people who grew the beans to make it and how much money they're getting for their labour?
Many of the largest chocolate manufacturers are sourcing there beans from farms where child labour is happening.   But these companies claim that they cannot trace where the cacao beans come from so they are not to blame. An estimated 15,000 children and working as slaves for the chocolate industry. They have to work extremely long hours in blistering heat and get very little food. These children are stolen from their parents when they are as young as five or six years old. They are smuggled across borders and sold into the slave trade.
Lately more research has been made into the growing problem of child slavery in the chocolate industry. The BBC even produced a program about it, which involved a journalist going undercover to pretend to be a person interested in buying slaves for their 'company'. The first part of this program can be seen here and you can watch the rest of the parts if you wish.
Although we cant stop the child labour we can stop funding it by buying chocolate that has the Fair Trade symbol on it (which can be seen below). This means that the farmer who produced this chocolate didn't use unpaid children in the production of the cocoa beans. The Fair Trade chocolate is more expensive than chocolate that isn't Fair Trade but I think it's worth it.