Sweets for the Season? Consider the Source

Chocolate—not all, but much of it—is entangled with an immoral global economy. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund contributed to the problem through neoliberal policies that undermined national pricing systems for decades. With farmers receiving only 6% of the multinational industry’s revenue, cocoa workers are deprived of fair pay for hard work. By More

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