Allmost all chocolate is made with partly cacao from Ivory Coast, where slavery is used to produce the cacao. When those slaves try to escape, they are murdered.
Although Côte d'Ivoire only produces 40% of world cacao, the big chocolate companies use that cacao mixed with other cacao.
2007-01-19 02:28:52 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Well, the first two answers make it clear why the rest of the world hates the US... it's not "the liberals," it's thoughtless, selfish, spoiled brats like you. You two bitchkitties deserve to spend a summer as slaves on a chocolate farm.
The truth is that if you eat chocolate, there is a VERY high probability that you are collaborating with slavery, to some degree. I've included a selection of articles documenting this in the Sources field.
So what are the alternatives? The two largest chocolate producers, M&M/Mars and Hershey, claim that they have no way of monitoring the labor practices of their providers. But they spend whatever it takes to make sure that no laws are passed requiring "slave-free" labeling for chocolate, because they continue (along with Nestle) to support slavery by purchasing from slave-using plantations in the Cote d'Ivoire.
In the face of growing world awareness, an increasing number of chocolate makers are changing their ways and buying only from farms that are certified as slave-free. These farms, part of a growing movement called "fair trade," pay their workers a living wage and are verified as not using slaves (typically, twelve-year-old boys bought for about $35).
If you're a kid, or you want to do something in your school to raise awareness and make a difference for the thousands of kids like you who are beaten with bamboo canes and locked in mud huts harvesting chocolate they will never taste, read the "What Kids Can Do" article in the Sources field.
If you're a grown-up, or you just want to buy chocolate from companies that don't support slavery, read the article under "Who Sells Fair Trade Chocolate?" or look at "Good Chocolate Products" (a graphically challenging Web page but good information).
And as a simple rule of thumb: in general, if it's organic, it's slave-free, because the certification process required to label chocolate as "organic" doesn't permit slave labor to be used in the harvesting of the cacao beans.
But thanks for asking -- it's a great question to raise as we approach Valentine's Day...
2007-01-19 03:44:50 · answer #1 · answered by Scott F 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
50% of the worlds cacao supplies come from Ivory Coast. And some of these farms do use slave labor.
The only way to be sure you're not funding the slave trade is to buy fair trade chocolate.
2007-01-19 02:52:22 · answer #2 · answered by Barrett G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd rather not be a party to that, but quite honestly, if I thought about where everything I consumed, used, or wore came from, I'd be starving and naked.
Also, if everyone boycotted the cacao, what would happen to the slaves then?
2007-01-19 02:45:30 · answer #3 · answered by irie.girl_2006 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
expensive Rosie whats the count number with you ? chocolate is the perfect style ever invented! to boot word my nick ?? properly ?? lolo i guess ive spent $$$ 1000's on that chocolate candies for the reason that i became a baby!! now bypass devour some chocolate an delight in existence!
2016-11-25 20:18:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chocolate - no,
Diamonds - yes
2007-01-19 03:36:46 · answer #5 · answered by BigD 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm alright with that. I heart chocolate.Besides, I can't be upset with them because their culture accepts that behavior..that would be kind of ethnocentric of me.
2007-01-19 02:39:09 · answer #6 · answered by Cool Guy With Long Hair 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, don't feel guilty at all.
Umm...........chocolate!!!
2007-01-19 02:38:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋