Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation
Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation
Children in Ghana, some as young as 5, are working cocoa fields and wielding machetes instead of attending school.
Also known as slaves, since they are not paid, not allowed to go to school or leave, and beaten and cut as punishment.
Stop eating slave chocolate, folks.
There is ethical chocolate available.
Where is that mythical ethical chocolate?
Look for fair trade. (Endandgered species chocalate is pretty good) they all still have shady practices ofc but you will get better chocalate!
I eat chocolonely, it's in supermarkets near me.
Here's a list of ethical chocolate companies:
https://www.slavefreechocolate.org/ethical-chocolate-companies
Mythical? It's at Aldi!
What if we keep eating slave chocolate, but we make the slave owners buy "freedom cocoa" credits from places where cocoa is being farmed ethically already?
Ok, where?? So I was already avoiding Nestle, now I find out Mars is in on this shit too. Is there any chocolate I can eat that isn't born from child slave labor? Are Reese's ok? I just want chocolate without supporting literal slavery.
Edit: just saw your other comment
Most supermarkets these days have ethical chocolate alternatives. Their brands aren't as well-known so you might not notice them unless you're looking for them, that was my case.
Then the first time I looked for ethical chocolate, chocolonely was right there on display in the first Safeway I walked into.
Most of the farmers producing the cocoa in your chocolate have themselves never tasted chocolate before.
It's fine because the slaves are in the other country and we get to call ourselves pioneer of human rights and green power to live guilt free. It's totally not by design, no sir.
Idk what you mean by "other country."
Are those like big, not-here states?
When it comes to chocolate it seems the only ethical option is not to consume it.
Here is a company that is trying to do the right thing: Tony’s Chocolonely
Note: I am not affiliated in any way, but simply heard about them via another story.
Pbs newshour and John Oliver have done stories on them in the past few yes
They are paying more money per tonne of cocoa to the slave owners... I don't see any indication that this "living wage" actually goes to the slaves themselves tho.
https://tonyschocolonely.com/int/en/our-story/news/why-we-wont-stop-paying-a-higher-price-for-cocoa
Ethical option would be for them to pay adults properly so the children dont need to work
The producers have been saying that is going to happen for decades and it has not.
That is why I say there is not guarantee that any chocolate is produced ethically.
They are still working with Russia as well.
Literally every major food company does stuff like this. It's one of the countless problems with unchecked capitalism.
Whether you intend to or not, you're suggesting everyone should blow this off and ignore it.
No, I'm suggesting seizing the means of production.
Sugar and coffee are also like this. Abolish capitalism faster, pls!