We are now so used to enjoying chocolate and having it available when we want that we never wonder where it really comes from and how it is produced. Cocoa growers and harvesters, who dedicate their entire lives to work on the plantations, for a salary that is not always fair, do not even have the opportunity to taste the delight that will be made from the precious beans.
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We are now so used to enjoying the chocolate and to have it available when we want that we never ask ourselves where it really comes from and how it is produced. Cocoa growers and harvesters, who dedicate their entire lives to work on the plantations, for a salary that is not always fair, do not even have the opportunity to taste the delight that will be made from the precious beans.
A video testifies to the reactions from growers who taste chocolate for the first time. Apparently, before this time they didn't even know it existed. We think that chocolate is something universal, that it is found everywhere and that everyone can enjoy it whenever they want. But is not so. There is still an unbridgeable disparity between those who grow cocoa and those who can afford to buy and have chocolate available.
There are people in the world who have never tasted it, not even those who grow cocoa and harvest it for a few cents in Ivory Coast everyday. They are the protagonists of this video that can only make us reflect on what we take for granted from the point of view of our diet. Of course, we can decide to buy fair trade cocoa and chocolate. But is it really a solution? Somewhere in the world, unfortunately, there will continue to be exploited and rightsless cocoa farmers and harvesters.
The Ivory Coast is among the world's largest cocoa producers, with 1,600 million tons per year. Cocoa feeds amulti-billion dollar industry ready to sell chocolate to the lucky ones who have the opportunity to buy it without problems at any time. The protagonist of the video is Alfonse. He grows and collects cocoa in the Ivory Coast, but does not have the possibility of using it to make chocolate. In fact, he hadn't seen or tasted it until now. He didn't know cocoa could be that good.
In the Ivory Coast chocolate is rare and expensive. A bar of chocolate costs 2 euros e Alfonse earns 7 euros a day with whom he has to support a family of 15 people and 4 cocoa harvesters who help him in the plantations.
Growers do not know how it will be used and what it will be used for. For them, tasting it is a privilege, a real celebration, and their reactions are full of amazement and enthusiasm. Something that unfortunately many of us have completely forgotten.
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