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Ran across this article on Yahoo today, fits right in with your dead-on piece: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/girl-scouts-troop-boycotts-cookie-sales-over-palm-oil-205552057.html

Along with palm oil, chocolate is also one of capital-colonialism's favorite means of oppression and climate change: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/sep/02/child-labour-on-nestle-farms-chocolate-giants-problems-continue

After my many trips to West Africa and having friends here in America from Ivory Coast, my entire family decided to stop eating chocolate -- a drop in the bucket to say the least, but our small contribution toward not letting these MOFOs continue to exploit people and places for their own profits.

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Deb C.๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ’š
Deb C.๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ’š

Written by Deb C.๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ’š

Former Navy Russian linguist, Realtor, Claims Adjuster, OpEd columnist/Features writer at a small, S. Florida newspaper. Since 2007, blogged at โ€œLetโ€™s Be Clearโ€

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