Posted by OddipusRex on February 3, 2003, at 22:29:42
In reply to I guess I'm just too sensitive. I'll shut up now (nm), posted by OddipusRex on February 3, 2003, at 19:40:57
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When (people) eat chocolate, they are eating my flesh." Drissa was forced to work as a slave on a cocoa plantation in Cote d'Ivoire
Child Slaves May Be Making Your Chocolate
On a recent trip to Sweden, I saw a report on BBC (made by TrueVision) on cocoa farming - the first step in making chocolate -in the Ivory Coast. According to the BBC, hundreds of thousands of children are being stolen from their parents, shipped to the Ivory Coast and sold as slaves to cocoa farms. These children earn no money for their work, are barely fed, are beaten if they try to escape, and most will never see their families again. Nearly 50% of the world's chocolate production starts in the Ivory Coast.
When I heard this, I was completely appalled. Suddenly I could taste every bit of chocolate I'd ever eaten in my life, a taste so sour at the thought that child slaves had produced it that I thought I would vomit.
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