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The World Cocoa Foundation is a non-profit membership organization with more than 90 member companies striving to make the cocoa supply chain more sustainable. WCF and its members are criticized for doing too little to end child labor, deforestation and extreme poverty, [1] with their efforts dismissed as greenwashing [2] and “a remarkable failure”. [3]
Also in 2009, Mars Botanical launched CirkuHealth, a cocoa extract-based dietary supplement. This was the first supplement launched by Mars, Incorporated and it featured cocoa extract that delivered cocoa flavanols. [3] In 2010, Mars Botanical launched two new products - CocoaVia and Cirku. Both were powdered cocoa extract supplements.
The collective wealth of the Ferrero and Mars families has soared to $160.9 billion, outsizing the summed-up GDPs of the leading global cocoa centers, Ghana and Ivory Coast, according to an ...
Cocoa-free chocolate alternatives come in many varieties, including milk, vegan, white and dark chocolate. The first innovator that introduced cocoa-free chocolate into the market was German company Planet A Foods, followed by UK-based Win-Win, Finnish-player Fazer and US-based company Voyage Foods.
Despite this effort, numerous children are still forced to work on cocoa plantations in Africa. In 2009, Mars and Cadbury joined the Rainforest Alliance to fight against child labor. By 2020, these major chocolate manufacturers hoped to completely eradicate child labor on any plantations from which they purchase their cocoa. [7]
Musk—who has 12 children on Earth—is all in on a plan to colonize Mars within this generation, the Times wrote. In April, he told SpaceX employees that in only 20 years, 1 million people will ...
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According to advocates of fair trade, such as Ghanaian cooperative Kuapa Kokoo, [1] [2] "Big Chocolate" companies include Mondelez (which owns Cadbury), Mars, Nestlé, and The Hershey Company. Together these companies process about 12% [ citation needed ] of the world's 3 million tons [ 3 ] of cocoa each year.