Images straight out of Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' are eye-opening about the absurdity of giving children in Europe chocolate, that is the product of child labor in Africa...
Instead, we went to a sustainable cacao farm Nortico in Turrialba, where we could see and learn how this can be done differently! We also visited a world-famous CATIE Institute (Tropical Agricultural Research Centre) that studies cacao and coffee plants, mmm...
We also brought only like SEVEN KILOGRAMS OF CACAO BEANS (which probably wasn't legal), and ate them all in a year time (pressing them and turning into hot chocolate with chili and spices!). Aldo (on the left) is a thoughtful , kind and proud owner of Nortico Cacao Farm.
'Business-as-usual chocolate is wrapped up in child labour, poorly paid farmers, and unjust global distribution of profits' (Decolonising chocolate, Ethical Consumer). 'Cocoa farmers are not paid enough, often not even covering the cost of production, while chocolate producers post billions in profit annually (Dr Michael Odijie, an expert in African studies on child labour in cocoa industury).
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