Halloween and child labor, hand in hand

  Halloween has always been a scary holiday between the scary movies and storys of killers but now theres a whole new thing to fear, child labor.  Child labor is being used to grow and harvest the cocoa beans on the ivory coast of africa, where candy companies such as Nestle and Hersheys begin their choclate producing process.  This year alone around halloween americans spent an estimated 2.4 billion dollars on candy.

One of the aforementioned companies, Hershey's, is now facing legal action for their child labor law violations. Why are these companies allowed to use child labor overseas with such little restriction? How were these crimes able to be concealed fro m the public for so long? Something needs to  be done, luckily some companies agree, the company in charge of producing kit kat bar's has recently been commended for using only chocolate that has been produced legally and without child labor. How can we get othe companies to do so as well?

Source:http://theithacan.org/27273
Trustworthiness: this source appears to be trustworthy, it is a small newspaper operated in Ithica, New York. It's articles are well written and the website is regularly updated leading me to beleive that it's a trustworthy source.
This specific article was posted on Halloween of this year, so it is very recent