Child welfare advocates have filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to force the Biden administration to block imports of cocoa harvested by children in West Africa that ends up in America’s most popular chocolate desserts and candies.
What blows my mind about this kind of thing is that we could definitively end this as consumers by just not purchasing products engaged in child labor, slave wages, etc. But these issues are so pervasive (across multiple industries) that we're either unaware of them or accept them as inevitable.
This a major failing of our societal development and we need to start treating it like one asap.
Or in this case, actual child slavery - a lot of these children have been kidnapped (sometimes from neighbouring countries), trafficked to a plantation, and made to work for free.
I think people like to imagine that these are all kids working alongside mum and dad for subsistence wages for their families but the reality is often much, much bleaker than that.
Every electronic device you own is made from slave labor, the rare-earth elements needed are mined by slaves in Africa, bought by Chinese Slave Owners and then manufactured in China to send to the west
Agreed, that's a problem too. Like I said, we need to start treating it like a societal failure (not an individual one). I'm not trying to lay out a detailed roadmap here, I'm just complaining online.
I know, and I'm not blaming you specifically or anything, but this has been on going for as long as I can remember and nothing changes. The raw materials needed to manufacture anything often come from places with 0 labor laws and I wish this country would focus more on stopping it rather then sweeping it under the rug
But it's a societal issue, like global warming it's something we all need to stop together.