History Film / TheDarkSideOfChocolate

* AdultFear: Since the children are trafficked, it can be guessed that they were kidnapped from elsewhere or, in some instances, the impoverished families handed them over without knowing what the risks were.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: More than 1.8 million children in West Africa are involved in growing cocoa. The children work hard, hazardous work with no pay and no medical attention. The exceptions are Fair Trade Certified chocolate, some companies, and organic chocolate, though the latter is probably only because at the time of writing no organic cocoa products are made from Ivory Coast.

''The Dark Side of Chocolate'' is a 2010 {{documentary}} film exposing the widespread, but strangely unknown-to-the-public. use of child slaves in the cocoa industry. It follows the lives of children in the cocoa fields, their working conditions, and the abuse of power of morality and ethics therein.

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[[caption-width-right:323: Not everything's better with chocolate...]]

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNpwIzeyjKQ The Dark Side of Chocolate]]'' is a 2010 {{documentary}} film exposing the widespread but strangely unknown-to-the-public use of child slaves in the cocoa industry.

!Tropes associated with ''The Dark Side of Chocolate:

* CorruptCorporateExecutive / VillainWithGoodPublicity: Those who support this practice include such companies as Hershey's, Nestle, and M&M Mars. These three in particular are giants in the industry.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Or rather Company Conspiracy:
** There was a move in June 28, 2001 by U.S. House of Representatives to label chocolate "slave-free" that was shot down by the chocolate industry.

* NoOSHACompliance: The farms inhumane conditions for its workers, which are working with heavy/dangerous tools, carrying heavy sacks, and using pesticides without protective gear/clothing, on top of employing children. To list a case in point, one of the children had sores in her legs from either being exposed to harmful chemicals,falling from carrying something too heavy, or injuring herself with tools.

* WouldHurtAChild: The chocolate companies or, rather, the ones they hire/buy from do this when they employ children to pick the cocoa plants, said cocoa plants having several occupational hazards that could do just as much harm to an adult, on top of getting beat on by the taskmasters.

--->'''Statement''': "The vast majority of cocoa farms are ''not'' owned by the companies that make chocolate or supply cocoa and we therefore don't have direct control over cocoa farming or labor practices."

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNpwIzeyjKQ The Dark Side of Chocolate'''' is a 2010 {{documentary}} film exposing the widespread but strangely unknown-to-the-public use of child slaves in the cocoa industry.

''The Dark Side of Chocolate'' is a 2010 {{documentary}} film exposing the widespread but strangely unknown-to-the-public use of child slaves in the cocoa industry.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNpwIzeyjKQ Watch it here:]]

!Tropes Associated With This:

* MadeASlave
* NeverMyFault: This is basically what the chocolate companies self-defense amounts to. They claim they have no control over the cocoa farms they buy from.

* WouldHurtAChild

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!!Tropes Associated With This:

* [[GovernmentConspiracy Company Conspiracy]]:

The Dark Side of Chocolate is a 2010 {{documentary}} film exposing the widespread but strangely unknown-to-the-public use of child slaves in the cocoa industry.

->'' "When you eat chocolate, you eat my flesh."[[hottip:*: This quote is not in the film.]]''