Heres a handy guide to help avoid buying Halloween treats produced by child slaves.Americans spend over a billion dollars every Halloween on chocolate, accounting for 10% of most chocolate companys annual revenue. And the average American citizen eats over 11 pounds of chocolate a year. So this Halloween, use your money to let them know that child slavery will not be tolerated by American consumers.Last September, a lawsuit was filed against eight companies including Hershey, Mars, and Nestle alleging that the companies were duping consumers into unwittingly funding the child slave labor trade in West Africa, home to two-thirds of the worlds cacao beans.Worker ages range from 11-16 (sometimes younger). They are trapped in isolated farms, where they work 80 to 100 hours a week. The film Slavery: A Global Investigation spoke with freed children who reported that they were often beaten with fists and belts and whips.The beatings were a part of my life, Aly Diabate, a freed slave, told reporters. Anytime they loaded you with bags (of cocoa beans) and you fell while carrying them, nobody helped you. Instead they beat you and beat you until you picked it up again.To help you avoid supporting slavery this Halloween, Heres are ten chocolate companies that benefit from child slave labor:HersheyMarsNestleADM CocoaGuittard Chocolate CompanyGodivaFowlers ChocolateKraftSees CandiesLegislation nearly passed in 2001 in which the FDA would implement slave free labeling on the packaging. Before the legislation made it to a vote, the chocolate industry including Nestle, Hershey, and Mars used its corporate money to stop it by promising to self-regulate and end child slavery in their businesses by 2005. This deadline has repeatedly been pushed back, with the current goal now at 2020.Meanwhile, the number of children working in the cocoa industry has increased by 51 percent from 2009 to 2014.As one freed boy put it: They enjoy something I suffered to make; I worked hard for them but saw no benefit. They are eating my flesh.Here is a list of more socially conscious companies who have made a point to avoid profiting off the suffering of child labor:Clif BarGreen and BlacksKoppers ChocolateL.A. Burdick ChocolatesDenman Island ChocolateGardners CandieMontezumas ChocolatesNewmans Own OrganicsKailua Candy CompanyOmanhene Cocoa Bean CompanyRapunzel Pure OrganicsThe Endangered Species Chocolate CompanyCloud Nine Filhos e Amigos seguidores do axe !Por mais dificil que a tua caminhada seja...Nunca desista !!Nao deixe que ninguem mude a essencia do seu Espirito...Caminhe sempre com a honestidade, sinceridade e transparencia...Receba o nao de muitos como um desafio e faca deste uma meta...Lute, persista, caminhe!Muitos irao te desestimular e dizer-te que nao vale a pena...Cabe somente a voce seguir em frente ou nao!Nesta caminhada muitos ficam para tras e outros vao ate o fim lutando,mesmo que nao consigam atingir o apice de seus sonhos, projetos e objetivos...Nunca se esqueca de que voce nao esta so e que existe uma Divindade, umOrisa, um Deus a te estimular a continuar!Confie na sua capacidade e na forca que voce desconhece ter!Nunca e tarde para se aprender, estudar, perdoar, voltar atras, resgataro que te incomoda, ser feliz, ser bom (boa) e viver intensamente,