For more than a year, Food Empowerment Project has been asking companies to tell us which countries supply the cacao used to make their chocolate products. Our goal? To ensure that consumers are able to make informed decisions and not inadvertently buy chocolate that comes from the slave trade in West Africa, a region steeped in child labor. We are not asking for full supply chain information or grower names - simply the cacao beans' country of origin.

You can see a list of the companies that have disclosed this information here:
http://www.foodispower.org/chocolatelist.htm

If you scroll down to the list of companies that will not tell us where they source their cacao, one of the names might surprise you - it surprised us: Clif Bar & Company.

Click here to find out more and take action!

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