The truth behind the chocolate is anything but sweet. This july, major chocolate producers such as mars, hersheys and nestle revealed that they were more about tricks than treats. However, the problem with this is, people make business out of coco by using young children to help in coco farms. Consumers of conventionally sourced chocolate, your tasty treat is the product of child labor and trafficking. The film investigates the slavetrading of a large number of african children who are exploited in cocoa plantations in ghana and ivory coast, that provide with their chocolate approximately 80% of the world. The movie beginns in cologne at the annual chocolate fair and takes the camera team to the ivory coast and the headquaters of nestle. While enjoying the sweet taste of chocolate, the reality is totally different for african children. To learn more, i recommend watching mika mistrati and u. What would make two chocolate loving presenters forgo the pleasures of chocolate.
Nonetheless, the title is very suitable when describing the life of the 85 year old. The dark side of chocolate from tamarahco hen productions plus. Welcome to the dark side proudly handmade in small batches, our truffles and confections are just as beautiful to behold with your eyes as they are to enjoy with your mouth. Please join us as we show the dark side of chocolate documentary and host a question and answer session regarding the importance of fair trade chocolate. The dark side of chocolate a film by miki mistrati and u. Some of the most crucial facts related to the heros motives and historical circumstances are never explained creating a major black hole in the story. On the ivory coast of africa, the origin of nearly half of the worlds cocoa, hundreds of thousands of children work or are enslaved on cocoa farms. Why the dark side of chocolate is a useful but insufficient resource on the ethics of cocoa article pdf available november 2012 with 653 reads how we measure reads. Even someone with a decent background in ww2 history might be lost. Apr 07, 20 if you have some free time, please watch the following documentary entitled the dark side of chocolate to learn more information about child labor and human trafficking within the chocolate industry. Global child labor perpetuates a cycle of poverty that prevents families.
The dark side of chocolate a film by miki mistrati and u roberto romano. The documentary is about child labour in the cocoa farms that takes place in the ivory coast. The dark side of chocolate industry video dailymotion. Although descriptions of these social issues and potential avenues for change are less clear, the film was likely intended to. As you can see, not all chocolate bars are created equal, so if your child is struggling to find any joy in nibbling on a piece of dark chocolate, take a step backwards and introduce them to a 60% dark chocolate or if thats still not doing the trick, choose a milk variety. Mar 22, 20 the dark side of chocolate aleah bowie from left, janell holloway, and raven fisher sampled chocolate during a class that introduced the political side of the sweet treat.
The dark side of chocolate is a 2010 documentary film about the exploitation and slave trading of african children to harvest chocolate that. The dark side of chocolate is a journalistic documentary which will reveal for the first time on film the hideous truth behind the manufacturing of german and international chocolate, as sold and enjoyed in germany and the rest of the world. We aim to bring you the joy of authentic flavour and allow you a true chocolate experience by using only fresh creams in combination with the finest organic, fair trade. Most common countries who are know for transporting coco are ghana, and ivory coast. Roberto romanos 2010 documentary, the dark side of chocolate, and checking out the chocolates child slaves content from. The dark side of chocolate allows us to participate in an investigative adventure, and its message is clear. The dark side of chocolate the dark side of chocolate is a documentary about the continued allegations of trafficking of children and child labour in the international chocolate industry. Every day thousands of australians enjoy the sweet taste of a chocolate bar. The dark side of chocolate interview with kim chirstiansen.
The dark side of chocolate a film by miki mistrati and. Dark side of chocolate film showing coming up global exchange. Mar 26, 2016 dark side of chocolate presentation 1. While we enjoy the sweet taste of chocolate, the reality is strikingly different for african children. View or download all content the institution has subscribed to. But its bittersweet according to world vision australia. Mar 16, 2010 the dark side of chocolate coco has been one of the most transport source of business for many years.
Where miki goes around to some of the most popular chocolate companies that has stand on the convention. But this should not be about best but about history of chocolate, not the history of american enterprise. In 2001 consumers around the world were outraged to discover that child labor and slavery. Aug 14, 2017 the dark side of chocolate is a 2010 documentary film about the exploitation and slavetrading of african children to harvest chocolate still occurring nearly ten years after the cocoa industry pledged to end it. The dark side of chocolate is a 2010 documentary film exposing the widespread but strangely unknowntothepublic use of child slaves in the cocoa industry.
The dark side of chocolate while we enjoy the sweet taste of chocolate, the reality is strikingly different for african children. Jan 27, 2011 as valentines day approaches, lots of people have chocolate on the brain. In 2012, the dark side of chocolate was nominated for the adolf grimme award. Watch the documentary to find out what this big company has to do with all this and how it reacts to the accusations. In 2001 consumers around the world were outraged to discover that child labor and slavery, tra.
Much of the footage in this documentary was recorded using a secret camera in a bag mistrati carried. Dark chocolate is in fact imbued with the radiance of the divines. Shady chocolate about the exploitation of african children in the cocoa industry, the documentarys director, miki mistrati, set up a giant screen next to nestles headquarters in switzerland and played it there. Does the world know about the dark side of chocolate. Aug 17, 2012 this documentary investigates undercover in this case. The dark side of chocolate is a 2010 documentary scripted by miki mistrati and directed by u. In the cocoa plantations of ghana and the ivory coast, children aged from 7 to 15 years old, with the promise of paid work, they are forced into slave labour.
The dark side of chocolate is a 2010 documentary film about the exploitation and slave trading of african children to harvest chocolate still occurring nearly ten years after the cocoa industry pledged to end it. The dark side of chocolate key concepts for educators even in this modern era, children around the world are forced to work in deplorable and often dangerous conditions at a time in their lives when they should be in classrooms and playgrounds. The dark side of chocolate full documentary youtube. Mar 12, 2010 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 screening national human. The dark side of chocolate the documentary nestle refused. Jul 03, 20 veja the dark side of chocolate scribevaldemirpreferred no dailymotion. Documentary films and short videos constitute a vast but untapped. Any, indeed, most americans that travel will tell you hersheys is too sweet and tastes little of chocolate.
Sep 11, 2015 when nestle refused to watch this documentary original title. The dark side of chocolate is a documentary produced by the danish journalist named miki mistrati. As a result of the documentary, more public attention was focused on child slavery in africa. Oct 28, 2005 this july, major chocolate producers such as mars, hersheys and nestle revealed that they were more about tricks than treats. 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 worlds cocoa. Cocoa plantations in ghana and the ivory coast provide 80% of the world with chocolate, according to corpwatch. The corporate ethical issues raised by this case is the fact that all the corporate companies that buy the chocolate from the ivory coast are fully aware of the issue about child slavery and that they signed an agreement to not participate in any child slavery manufacturing, yet they still continue to purchase their chocolate with the same manufacturers that participate in child slavery.
This year, to mark the occasion i decided to host a san francisco screening of the film dark side of chocolate, the documentary that goes undercover to reveal the bitter truth about child slavery in the cocoa industry. With diamoutene bakary, david bateson, henri blemin, mieke callebaut. In the process, those responsible will be held accountable. Aug 20, 2017 the dark side of chocolate is a documentary film about the exploitation and slavetrading of african children to harvest chocolate still occurring nearly ten years after the cocoa industry pledged. With the intention to put an end to child trafficking combined with the obligation to eradicate the forced labour in the cocoa industry by the year 2008, in 2001, representatives from all the big chocolate companies signed the harkinengel protocol, an international agreement also known as the cocoa protocol.