ALT The letter subject is: The chocolate industry needs to change, enact due diligence legislation now and the body is: Did you know that the chocolate industry is hiding a bitter truth? Almost every bit of commercially made chocolate you eat includes cocoa that was harvested by children working under illegal and hazardous conditions. Among these children are those that are effectively trafficked and enslaved. And for more than two decades, the world's leading chocolate companies, primarily American ones, who directly benefit from this broken system, have pledged to end this exploitation, but have failed time and time again to do so. Credible reports indicate that 1.56 million children in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, home to most of the world's cocoa production, continue to work on cocoa farms in violation of all international norms and agreements. These reports also show the problem is growing and that the number of children five to nine years old working on these farms are increasing