Miki mistrati biography for kids
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Miki Mistrati on CHP:DOX’s F:act competition entry The Chocolate War
What struck you most about Collingsworth’s personality?
MM: What you see is what you get. He is incredibly passionate, and just pissed off with people who take advantage of the underprivileged. His background reminds me a bit of myself. We come from working class backgrounds. His childhood shaped him-a bit like me. If he wanted to work with a major law firm, he could. But his life mission is to fight as a human rights lawyer around the world.
What could make a difference and really help Collingsworth in his fight against the giant chocolate firms? The current US Democratic Party’s term in office? On-going media attention to awaken public opinion?
MM: The Supreme Court often sides with Republicans - I think it’s sad but corporate America is protected by Republicans so going after the giant chocolate companies is tough. Ultimately, and this is what Terry says at the end: boycotting all the conventional chocolate for sale is the way to go if you want to change things. Only consumers can stop things.
Roco Films in the US is handling sales in North America and DR Sales in the rest of the world. What type of release do you hope the film will have?
MM: I hope it will be picked up by a platform to go a
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2010 Danish film
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| Edited by | Andreas Switch Eriksen |
| Music by | Jonas Colstrup |
Production | Bastard Ep & TV |
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| Country | Denmark[1] |
| Languages | English German French |
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Chocolate is a product of the cacao bean, which grows primarily in the tropical climates of Western Africa, Asia, and Latin America.[1] The cacao bean is more commonly referred to as cocoa, so that is the term that will be used throughout this article. Western African countries, mostly Ghana and the Ivory Coast, supply about 70% of the world’s cocoa.[2] The cocoa they grow and harvest is sold to a majority of chocolate companies, including the largest in the world.[3, 4]
In the past few decades, a handful of organizations and journalists have exposed the widespread use of child labor, and in some cases slavery, on cocoa farms in Western Africa.[5, 6, 7, 4, 8] Child labor has been found on cocoa farms in Cameroon, Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, although since most of Western Africa’s cocoa is grown in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, the majority of child labor cases have been documented in those two countries.[9, 10, 2]
In recent years, evidence has also surfaced of both child labor and slavery on cocoa farms in Brazil.[11] Cocoa workers there face many of the same abuses as those on the cocoa farms of Western Africa.
Aside from cocoa production in Western Africa and Brazil, a significant amount of cocoa is also grown in other parts of Latin America. While it