Learn More
Interested in learning more about where your food comes from? Check out the links below.
Documentaries
- Right to Harm
- Sustainable
- The Dark Side of Chocolate
- Banana Land: Blood, Bullets & Poison
- Rotten — on Netflix, the episodes on garlic, sugar, and cocoa are especially good
Articles and Reports
- Fair World Project, Label Before Labor: Fair Trade USA’s Label Fails Dairy Workers, May 2021.
- Peter Whoriskey, Supreme Court weighs child-slavery case against Nestlé USA, Cargill, Washington Post, December 1, 2020.
- Peter Whoriskey, U.S. report: Much of the world’s chocolate supply relies on more than 1 million child workers, Washington Post, October 19, 2020.
- Peter Whoriskey, On Valentine’s Day, a push to keep companies from making chocolate with cocoa grown with child labor, Washington Post, February 14, 2020.
- Peter Whoriskey, Chocolate companies sell ‘certified cocoa.’ But some of those farms use child labor, harm forests, Washington Post, October 23, 2019.
- Salwan Georges & Peter Whoriskey, The Children who harvest cocoa, Washington Post, December 30, 2019.
- Peter Whoriskey, Senators call for crackdown on cocoa imports made with forced child labor, Washington Post, July 16, 2019.
- Peter Whoriskey and Rachel Siegel, Cocoa’s Child Laborers, Washington Post, June 5, 2019.
- Seafood From Slaves: An AP investigation helps free slaves in the 21st century, AP, Winner of 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
- Abraham Lustgarten, Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help, New York Times, November 18, 2018.
- Richard Marosi and Don Bartletti, Product of Mexico: Hardship on Mexico’s farms, a bounty for U.S. tables, LA Times, Dec. 7, 2014.
Websites
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