While examining resources related to how our personal buying decisions impact the health and welfare of others, I found something quite unexpected. I knew I would find info relating to problems with buying from the Gap, Nike, and Abercrombie, but I never expected that chocolate could bring so much pain to people. There are several resources that talk about how child labor (sometimes child slave labor) is used in the cocoa industry. Children are bought or kidnapped and forced to work in the chocolate industry. Some are lured with the promise of money, only to be enslaved and mistreated on cocoa plantations. I had no idea that children are suffering to produce chocolate.
So, unless you want to perpetually have to ask yourself if your chocolate contains the blood, sweat and tears of child slave labor . . .
buy fair trade chocolate.
The following link contains "Slave-Free Chocolate Table": http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery/goodchocolateproducts.html
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Child labor is a global issue and certainly worthy of increased attention and awareness building, the first step toward change. Here's a story on the Lost Children of Haiti http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20399594/
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