Hershey's sweet candy bars have a bitter origin in West Africa - one involving kid labor, protesters outside the chocolate giant's Times Square store charged Wednesday. The demonstrators accused the confection king of welshing on its vow 10 years ago to eliminate using child laborers in their West African cocoa farms. Hershey's is lagging behind its competitors who have already improved regulations on workers, they said...Hershey's spokesman, Kirt Saville, did not address the company's child labor practices, but said it has been committed for the past 50 years to improving the West African cocoa communities. "We have helped develop more productive agricultural practices, build educational and community resources and eliminate exploitative labor practices," he said. "Our focus in on the ground programs that promote sustainable livelihoods in west Africa."