A lawsuit filed against the world’s largest food maker, Nestle, has revealed how the company connived with local farmers to use children for slave labour in West Africa especially Mali.
The lawsuit was filed against Nestle by Archer Daniels Midland Co and Cargill Inc. for former child slavery victims originally from Mali in West Africa.
The case dates back to 2005.
Their lawsuit claims that, aware of the child slavery problem, the companies offered financial and technical assistance to local farmers in a bid to guarantee the cheapest source of cocoa.
