The Cacao Child Labor Crisis — And MrBeast's Fix
Between 1.5 and 1.8 million children work in illegal child labor on West African cacao farms — and the chocolate industry has known about it for decades and done essentially nothing. MrBeast's Feastables brand built an ethical supply chain from scratch, guaranteeing living income reference prices to farmers and auditing for child labor, and in seven months reduced illegal child labor in five villages by 90%.
