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    Cocoa powder is the preferred ingredient for giving chocolate desserts their flavor and color. It is what is used in most chocolate cake recipes as well as in recipes for brownies, chocolate pudding and homemade chocolate ice cream. If you find that you are out of cocoa powder and don't have time to get any, you may be able to find other ingredients capable of filling its role. Note that when choosing a cocoa powder substitute, you will need to look for one that provides the right flavor without

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    Discovering Chocolate

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    "Heart Health Benefits of Chocolate." Cleveland Clinic. Cleveland Clinic. n.d. Web. 22 July 2015. "History of Cocoa." History of Cocoa. World Cocoa Foundation. n.d. Web. 23 July 2015. Hough, Andrew. "Eating Chocolate 'can Help Relieve Pain', Study Claims." The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. 14 October 2009. Web. 28 July 2015. "International Cocoa Organization." Processing Cocoa. 7 June 2013. Web. 22 July 2015. Klein, Christopher. "The Sweet History of Chocolate." History.com. A&E Television

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    after all its only chocolate. The thing most people don’t know is that this chocolate isn’t just produced in some factory in America and shipped to your local grocery store. America alone consumes 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate a year. Farming the cocoa is a struggle for workers, these workers aren’t properly noursihed, they’re going to wars within their country, being underpaid and worst off all some of these workers are slaves. The process that goes into the production of a chocolate bar is very

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    Chocolate Child Labor

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    Chocolate is the one of the famous snack in the world and consumed by a lot of consumers all around the world. Chocolate is made from cacao beans and cacao beans are produced by smallholder farmers. Most of the world’s cacao beans comes from West Africa, mostly the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire more than 40% of the world’s cacao beans. The cacao beans they grow sold to the most of the chocolate company. I found out the cacao beans may be the result of unfair labor, child labor and the slave. In the Republic

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    In Côte d'Ivoire, a french speaking country on Africa’s western coast. Cocoa farmer Georges Kouamé Koffi has been farming cocoa for 50 years. He has eaten chocolate once in his life because it’s too expensive for his family to buy. Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is the largest exporter of cocoa in the world, It accounts for more than half of their foreign earnings, over three quarters of the world's cocoa beans are from the ivory coast and a large portion of the population depends on its prosperity

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    went into the making of your chocolate bar. As producers of more than half the world’s cocoa beans, the Western African countries of Ghana and the Ivory Coast are in constant need of laborers, often calling on a younger population to replenish their supply. In fact, more than 1.8 million (or thirty percent of) Sub-Saharan African children under the age of fifteen are laborers, mainly in agricultural fields like cocoa farming. While this percentage seems shockingly high, the most disturbing truth is

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    from the use of cacao in ceremonies and rituals and for medicinal purposes, to colonial cacao plantations, and finally to present-day mass production of chocolate and chocolate products. Long-term high demand for chocolate has kept the market for cocoa beans open; today, there exists various fair trade agreements between

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    had a negative impact on the world. Man's needs for chocolate caused slavery, colonization, globalization, and how chocolate affected the economy. Man's needs for chocolate caused slavery. For instance, “there are approximately 600,000 cocoa farms and there are approximately 15,000 young children slaves working to provide for their families. Even though the workers are payed little. They are barely fed either. The workers have one meal a day, and that is corn paste so not only are they

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    Ghana and Ivory Coast are two of the most influential countries in Sub-Saharan African history. Both Ghana and Ivory Coast are very alike each other. The similarities between the two countries are most evident in the geographical region, ethnic groups, spiritual matters, agricultural and economical matters. The similarities between Ghana and Ivory Coast are seemingly endless. They were both neighboring countries and created in the same region, West Africa. Ghana and Ivory Coast are countries in Africa

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    COL 145 - 019 Amna Mohamed Khalfan AlHameli - 201502914 Persuasive Essay : The Dark Side of Chocolate. As you peel back the wrapper, you are revealing the cacao tree seed and joining the world’s individuals once again who have turned the chocolate into ritual, medicine and mere pleasure of all time for the past 4,000 years (National Confectioners Association, n.d.) . The chocolate is considered as a treat so admired worldwide from a long time ago and no one would dare to raise

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