Actually not sure they particularly do make anything that would be classed as a "candy". It's not that they don't have "high quality expensive chocolate" so much as they just don't process it that way? I think it gets used in cooking and such more than anything? Just because they have cacao, doesn't mean they have…

I was just thinking Nestle can't be fucked to do anything about the slavery that produces their chocolate, but the second productivity gets threatened - BOOM - Ebola charity.

Why don't you go back under whatever bridge you came from.

I think it's more insulting to take advantage of people's poverty by forcing them to work for incredibly low wages.

"Frankly, I do not know what one makes from cocoa beans," farmer N'Da Alphonse tellsSelay Marius Kouassi, a reporter for Metropolis, an international news website. He's heard it's turned into food, but he's never tried it. That's because chocolate isn't easy to find in Ivory Coast, and when it is, it's sold for around…

WATCH THE DAMN VIDEO.

I used to determine eligibility for SNAP (food stamps) and I used to cry weekly, at least, when I couldn't qualify some people. It was a shitty job....some days it was a good, helpful job, hut mostly it was pretty awful.

FIRE IN THE HOLE.

It is astounding. I live in SC, and our county is purple overall but solid blue in my city. The school district received a grant from the federal government that allows all the children at my son's elementary school to receive free breakfast, regardless of income. It's an amazing plan. Of course people in the red part…

It's even more insidious than that. There is such a stigma attached to asking for the help that is available that some people would rather go hungry (and their children, too) than reach out for assistance because they are ashamed and feel like they should "pulling their own weight" by their bootstraps like real…

It will always astound me that this happens in the richest countries in the world, all because some people want to make sure no one gets what they worked for for free, for any reason.

Saw this on Facebook this morning.

wow, so we're only concerned now because possible ebola? we were totally cool with the child slavery that the chocolate industry is so fond of?

I get that this is supposed to be funny (the "we're all victims" line), but it does read a little tone deaf in light of the aforementioned 4,000 lives lost because of Ebola.

A real missed opportunity for a "Drunk in Louvre" headline.

"In a way, we're all victims"???

That reminds me of this article about Ivory Coast cacao farmers tasting chocolate for the first time. The video brought tears of happiness to my eyes.

Also, "torn to shreds" is overstating

Nope. This is criticizing her reaction and actions on the show. That's all I can go off. I get the frustration and annoyance - like, why are y'all bringing me back after kicking me off