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Title: Shareholders call for report to learn if the company is using child and slave labor. No action.

Consumer Interest: Company Ethos (change)

"Hershey shareholders presented a resolution calling for a report on the company's cocoa sources. The resolution was designed to determine whether Hershey purchases cocoa from Cargill, ADM and Nestle, all of which have been implicated as sourcing cocoa from farms that use slave and child labor. US chocolate companies agreed to work toward ending illegal child labor on cocoa farms vis-a-vis the voluntary Harkin-Engel Protocol. However, the protocol expired on July 1, 2005, and the industry failed to develop a system to certify that US chocolate products are sourced without the use of forced child labor."

Quoting CoopAmerica http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/responsibleshopper/http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/responsibleshopper/company.cfm?id=238

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