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Dog, rabbit and fox fur found in toys and key rings sold in markets and online (opens the original)
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Animal welfare organisation Four Paws commissioned UK-based lab Microtex Analysis to analyse fur on fluffy toys and key rings sold at market stalls in NSW as well as online retailers. One key ring sold online as "fake fur" was consistent with dog hair, which has been banned in Australia since 2004. Toys are not covered by mandatory labelling laws under Australian Consumer Law. Laboratory testing of seven fluffy toys and key rings sold by online retailers and at stalls in markets in NSW has found
On farms around Australia, 21st-century slaves are picking our food (opens the original)
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Warning: This story contains discussion of suicide Some days Gershom Isaac says he feels suicidal. He spends up to 12 hours a day climbing ladders to pick fruit or bent over pulling onions and pumpkins, sometimes earning less than $7 an hour. At night, he returns to overcrowded, squalid accommodation. The relentless cycle has left him feeling exhausted and hopeless. Gershom came to Australia from Papua New Guinea, chasing the Australian dream. Instead, he became trapped in a system where labour
Child exploitation still rampant in cocoa industry - ABC listen (opens the original)
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For more than two decades, chocolate companies have promised to end child labour in cocoa supply chains - setting targets and investing billions. But a Four Corners investigation in Ghana has found fresh evidence it's still happening even as companies use certification schemes to assure consumers their chocolate is sustainable. A boy cuts weeds with a machete on a Ghanaian cocoa farm.(Supplied) Melissa Clarke: For more than two decades, chocolate companies have promised to end child labour in co
'Behind that treat is human suffering': The chocolate industry's 'dirty secret' (opens the original)
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It is early morning and children as young as 10 are already at work. The boys wield large machetes, clearing weeds and undergrowth on a cocoa farm in Ghana's east. They should be getting ready for school. The children will spend the next few weeks working long days on the cocoa farm, paid as little as two or three Ghanaian cedis ($0.37) an hour, enough to buy a banana, but not enough for a loaf of bread. Their families have no other choice. It's a matter of survival. The cocoa these children are
'They are getting fooled': How ultra-processed food is made to look healthier (opens the original)
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Ever wondered why it's so hard to stop at eating just one potato chip, one piece of chocolate or one piece of fried chicken? Former food technologist Min Sheen Tan said that's no accident. "It's the bliss point … the irresistible trifecta of fat, sugar, salt in conjunction with mouth feel, texture and things like crunchiness," he said. "Biologically speaking, as humans, we cannot turn down those things because we crave them." Every bite, every crunch and every sensation is carefully engineered t
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