WASHINGTON -- Catching the industry...

WASHINGTON -- Catching the industry through surprise, a House amendment in support of voluntary labeling of "slave-free" chocolate had Chocolate Manufacturers Association lobbyists working to derail the proposal at pres time.

The proposal, a sentence-long amendment to an agriculture appropriations bill, allocates $250000 for the FDA "to disclose a label for chocolate produces that indicates that no child slave labor was used in the growing and harvesting of cocoa." It was passed by means of the House on June 28 a little more than an hour after it was exhibited by Rep. ...