Hershey's Dark Chocolate Secrets | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Go to http://mintmobile.com/casket to get your new wireless plan for just $15 a month and get the plan shipped to you for free. Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Hershey’s is one of the largest chocolate companies out there. But have they earned that title? Are they delicious or a monopoly? Are they sweet or foul and exploitative? The answer, unfortunately, won’t surprise you. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/che4e Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2	My name is Trey Dunstan.
0:31.6	I'm the Executive Director of Wisdom to Action.
0:34.7	We can create a world.
0:36.4	If you look up controversies that Hershey's has found itself in, one of the first you'll probably
0:40.8	find is from March when they included a trans woman on their
0:43.8	rappers for their International Women's Day campaign.
0:46.7	When the Rainbow Mafia has really gone to erase women from even our own
0:50.8	conservatives claimed that Hershey's was trying to erase women by doing this, alleging that the company was too woke and even pushed the hashtag boycott Hershey's to the number one trending topic on Twitter.
1:01.0	Is it something that's going to make me stop buying a Hershey bar?
1:04.8	No.
1:05.8	Rather than bend to public pressure, delete the ad, and pull their chocolate, however,
1:09.9	Hershey's actually defended themselves.
1:12.1	In a statement, they said that they quote,
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