In “The Haribo Check,” aired on German public broadcast ARD, a documentary team audits Haribo’s supply chain and finds “modern day slaves” in Brazil working to harvest carnauba wax, a key ingredient in the sweets: the plantations pay $12/day, and workers (including children) sleep out of doors, drink unfiltered river water, and have no access to toilets, under conditions that a Brazilian Labor Ministry official called “modern-day slavery.”
Meanwhile, the gelatin that goes into Haribo sweets comes from suppliers to the agri-giant Westfleisch, whose pigs are pen-raised, with open sores and abscesses, wallowing in excrement, crammed up against animals that had died of mistreatment.
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