Ciocolata place tuturor! In fiecare an sunt consumate 3 milioane de tone, jumatate din ea, in Europa.
Dar, succesul ciocolatei, are o parte intunecata. In timp ce, copii tarilor dezvoltate, ii savureaza gustul, realitatea este mai degraba diferita, pentru copiii Africii.
Potrivit multor organizatii diferite industria ciocolatei este acuzata de acoperirea traficului cu copii si folosirea muncii copiilor pe plantatiile de cacao.
Ne-am decis sa investigam aceste acuzatii, dar adevarul poate fi periculos. Vom merge sub acoperire, folosind camere ascunse si identitati false.
Sa fie adevarat ca, mici copii, lucreaza ca sclavi pentru industria ciocolatei?
LATURA INTUNECATA a Ciocolatei - THE DARK SIDE of Chocolate - subtitrat in romana The Dark Side Of Chocolate nu este nimic mai mult decat un simplu documentar, din 2010, in regia danezilor Miki Mistrati si U. Roberto Romano, care incearca sa mentina in atentia unei lumi din ce in ce mai atinsa de amnezie sau indiferenta, faptul ca, in plin secol XXI, mai persista o situatie pe care unii o considera o simpla problema de istorie: sclavia copiilor africani de pe plantatiile de cacao. LATURA INTUNECATA a Ciocolatei - THE DARK SIDE of Chocolate - Youtube
The Chocolate Industry. Child Trafficing & Slavery
The Dark Side Of Chocolate, according to a wide range of organizations the chocolate industries are accused of covering up the trafficking of children and the use of child labor in African plantations and probably many other palaces like south America and wherever chocolate beans are grown
LATURA INTUNECATA a Ciocolatei - THE DARK SIDE of Chocolate - Vimeo
'The Dark Side of Chocolate' - a film by Miki Mistrati and U Roberto Romano
The Dark Side of Chocolate is a documentary about the continued allegations of trafficking of children and child labor in the international chocolate industry. The Dark Side of Chocolate on Facebook: da-dk.facebook.com/group.php?gid=331502629133&ref=ts
LATURA INTUNECATA a Ciocolatei - THE DARK SIDE of Chocolate - Youtube trailer
'The Dark Side of Chocolate' is a documentary about the continued allegations of trafficking of children and child labor in the international chocolate industry.
While we enjoy the sweet taste of chocolate, the reality is strikingly different for African children.
In 2001 consumers around the world were outraged to discover that child labor and slavery, trafficking, and other abuses existed on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast, a country that produces nearly half the world's cocoa. An avalanche of negative publicity and consumer demands for answers and solutions soon followed.
Two members of US Congress, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and Representative Eliot Engel of New York, tackled the issue by adding a rider to an agricultural bill proposing a federal system to certify and label chocolate products as "slave free".
The measure passed the House of Representatives and created a potential disaster for Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland Mars, Hershey's, Nestle, Barry Callebaut, Saf-Cacao and other chocolate manufacturers. To avoid legislation that would have forced chocolate companies to label their products with "no child labor" labels (for which many major chocolate manufacturers wouldn't qualify), the industry fought back and finally agreed to a voluntary protocol to end abusive and forced child labor on cocoa farms by 2005.
The chocolate industry fought back. Ultimately, a compromise was reached to end child labor on Ivory Coast cocoa farms by 2005.
In 2005 the cocoa industry failed to comply with the protocol's terms, and a new deadline for 2008 was established.
In 2008 the terms of the protocol were still not met, and yet another deadline for 2010 was set.
And in 2010?
Almost a decade after the chocolate companies, concerned governments and specially foundations spent millions of dollars in an effort to eradicate child labor and trafficking in the international cocoa trade, has anything changed?
Miki Mistrati and U Roberto Romano launch a behind-the-scenes investigation and verify if these allegations of child labor in the chocolate industry are present today.
