Date of publication: February 14, 2008
Source: Marketplace
Doug Krizner: Get set you love birds: To mark Valentine's Day this year, you'll shell out more than 17 billion on cards, flowers -- and of course, the chocolate. More than half the chocolate -- or rather, the cocoa used to make that chocolate -- comes from West Africa. It's a region where child labor -- and even child trafficking and slavery -- is well documented.
Today, activists are sending bouquets to the CEOs of major chocolate companies with a call for more transparency in cocoa supply chains. But as Gretchen Wilson reports, the industry says it's following its own process to improve conditions...