A disturbing, but important, exposé of the world’s favourite sweet treat, in the tradition of No Logo. West Africa’s Cote d’Ivoire produces almost half of the world’s cocoa beans. And those beans are farmed by children, many of them indentured labourers (read: slaves) imported from warring bordering countries and lured with the promise of a payday that never comes. ‘Chocolate has been a luxury that’s been enjoyed by elites at the cost of an underclass since it was first discovered,’ says author Carol Off, a Canadian investigative journalist. ‘We’re no different from Montezuma. We’re no different from Louis XIV.’