Don't Buy Hershey's Chocolate

Hershey Company gets most of its cocoa from West Africa, from Ivory Coast, notorious for using child slave labor. Hershey has a new Corporate Social Responsibility Report. On page 18, under "responsible sourcing," Hershey reports "due to the breadth of our product lines, we source more than 10,000 different ingredients from suppliers throughout the world." Obfuscation. Too big to is not transparent. Hershey writes the checks: the company knows where and how the cocoa is sourced, and is hiding it. Read the report, take the online survey. And buy chocolate from genuinely responsible manufacturers.