NEWS PAPER
Monday, March 29th 2021
#602
English presentation
CHILD LABOR AND SLAVERY IN THE CHOCOLATE INDUSTRY
Chocolate is a product of the cacao bean, which grows primarily in the tropical climates of Western Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The cacao bean is more commonly referred to as cocoa. Western African countries, mostly Ghana and the Ivory Coast, supply more than 70% of the world’s cocoa sold to a majority of chocolate companies, including the largest in the world.
SandomierskaWeronika 4ALL
+foodispower.com
Cocoa Slavery
Big Chocolate’s child-labor problem is still far from fixed
Consumer awareness is having an impact and people are demanding that chocolate companies provide ethically-sourced products.
Where does cocoa come from?
The Hidden Ingredient in Chocolate: Africa’s Child Slaves
Sabrina Pecorelli
Cocoa beans, sugar, and just a sprinkle of child slaves. While most people know that chocolate comes from cocoa beans, they are unaware of the human and economic toll of the product. In Western countries, chocolate symbolizes a reward used to motivate children for good behavior, but in Western Africa it represents an industry that enslaves and imprisons children, exploiting them for free labor.
+chargedaffairs.org
Not so sweet: chocolate, slavery and complicit corporations
Professor John Dumay
Dark origin: Chocolate producers who buy cocoa from the Ivory Coast have not resolved the issue of child labour.
+thelighthouse.mq.edu.au
How Much Child Slavery Is In Your Chocolate: The Real Story
Surya Bhattacharya
"My "roommates" and I have been tricked into a life of slavery"
Drissa was offered what he thought was a good job working on a cocoa plantation. When he reached the isolated farm, however, he soon realized he was taken there as a slave. He tried to escape but was savagely beaten.
After a long day of hard work he is locked into a small room with 17 other teenage boys, with one tin can to share as the toilet.
+faze.ca/child-slavery-in-your-chocolate
Slave free chocolate
Ethical chocolate companies
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COCOA SLAVERY
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NEWS PAPER
Monday, March 29th 2021
#602
English presentation
CHILD LABOR AND SLAVERY IN THE CHOCOLATE INDUSTRY
Chocolate is a product of the cacao bean, which grows primarily in the tropical climates of Western Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The cacao bean is more commonly referred to as cocoa. Western African countries, mostly Ghana and the Ivory Coast, supply more than 70% of the world’s cocoa sold to a majority of chocolate companies, including the largest in the world.
SandomierskaWeronika 4ALL
+foodispower.com
Cocoa Slavery
Big Chocolate’s child-labor problem is still far from fixed
Consumer awareness is having an impact and people are demanding that chocolate companies provide ethically-sourced products.
Where does cocoa come from?
The Hidden Ingredient in Chocolate: Africa’s Child Slaves
Sabrina Pecorelli
Cocoa beans, sugar, and just a sprinkle of child slaves. While most people know that chocolate comes from cocoa beans, they are unaware of the human and economic toll of the product. In Western countries, chocolate symbolizes a reward used to motivate children for good behavior, but in Western Africa it represents an industry that enslaves and imprisons children, exploiting them for free labor.
+chargedaffairs.org
Not so sweet: chocolate, slavery and complicit corporations
Professor John Dumay
Dark origin: Chocolate producers who buy cocoa from the Ivory Coast have not resolved the issue of child labour.
+thelighthouse.mq.edu.au
How Much Child Slavery Is In Your Chocolate: The Real Story
Surya Bhattacharya
"My "roommates" and I have been tricked into a life of slavery"
Drissa was offered what he thought was a good job working on a cocoa plantation. When he reached the isolated farm, however, he soon realized he was taken there as a slave. He tried to escape but was savagely beaten.
After a long day of hard work he is locked into a small room with 17 other teenage boys, with one tin can to share as the toilet.
+faze.ca/child-slavery-in-your-chocolate
Slave free chocolate
Ethical chocolate companies
+info
+info