The U.S. government and the chocolate industry pledged $17 million on Monday to help end child labor - some of it forced and dangerous - in two African countries where much of the world's cocoa is grown.
"If there's one thing people around the world share in common it's our love of chocolate. But it is a bitter reality that the main ingredient in chocolate, cocoa, is produced largely by child labor," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, at a signing ceremony for a new agreement between industry, the Department of Labor, the Ivory Coast and Ghana.
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