Sweet, Sweet Irony

The use of child slave labor in cocoa production is of particular concern. In the late 1990's, reports of large numbers of child slaves being used in cocoa production in Ivory Coast began to surface. Since then, the world's major chocolate producers and the Chocolate Manufacturers Association have vowed to end child slavery in the cocoa business.

From Chocolate That Flashes Its Passport, by KIM SEVERSON
February 8, 2006, New York Times

I don't know about you, but isn't it terribly ironic that the chocolate so incessently marketed to children may in fact be the work product of enslaved children?