No, your Haribo gummy bears weren't made by slaves

Some in Germany are claiming that Haribo is using human slavery to produce gummy bears. It’s certainly an arresting claim, but it’s one that needs to be scrutinized just a little.

Using poor people in a poor part of a poor country to produce one ingredient is not slavery. We’ve got to understand what poverty, real poverty that is, actually means in the real world. It’s not having a little, or even much less than other people — poverty is having near nothing at all.