Nestle' makes the very bessssssst. Or does it?

[Grace]

Profits Before People: 7 of the World’s Mos&#116

More than 40% of the world’s chocolate comes from Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) in Africa, where tens of thousands of children are estimated to be working in dangerous conditions on cocoa farms. Nestle uses cocoa harvested by slave labor, and only when Senator Thomas Harkin (D-Iowa) led an investigation and introduced legislation that would require chocolate sold in the US to be labeled “slave-free” did the company act. Nestle promised that by July 2005 they would find a way to certify chocolate as not having been produced by any underage, indentured, trafficked or coerced labor, but since then, they have achieved very little.

 

[JBeukema]

Since when does America have a problem with slavery?

 

[Publius1787]

Profits Before People: 7 of the World’s Most

More than 40% of the world’s chocolate comes from Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) in Africa, where tens of thousands of children are estimated to be working in dangerous conditions on cocoa farms. Nestle uses cocoa harvested by slave labor, and only when Senator Thomas Harkin (D-Iowa) led an investigation and introduced legislation that would require chocolate sold in the US to be labeled “slave-free” did the company act. Nestle promised that by July 2005 they would find a way to certify chocolate as not having been produced by any underage, indentured, trafficked or coerced labor, but since then, they have achieved very little.

I doubt that putting those children out fo work will improve their situation. Its like when people cry "human rights violation" in reference to the workers in China. Well, if you were to stop this "abuse" you would destroy the lives of millions of chinese. Makes no since.

 

[JBeukema]

Profits Before People: 7 of the World’s Most

More than 40% of the world’s chocolate comes from Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) in Africa, where tens of thousands of children are estimated to be working in dangerous conditions on cocoa farms. Nestle uses cocoa harvested by slave labor, and only when Senator Thomas Harkin (D-Iowa) led an investigation and introduced legislation that would require chocolate sold in the US to be labeled “slave-free” did the company act. Nestle promised that by July 2005 they would find a way to certify chocolate as not having been produced by any underage, indentured, trafficked or coerced labor, but since then, they have achieved very little.

I doubt that putting those children out fo work will improve their situation. Its like when people cry "human rights violation" in reference to the workers in China. Well, if you were to stop this "abuse" you would destroy the lives of millions of chinese. Makes no since.

Yes, abolition did truly terrible things to the Negro...

 

[Publius1787]

Profits Before People: 7 of the World’s Most

I doubt that putting those children out fo work will improve their situation. Its like when people cry "human rights violation" in reference to the workers in China. Well, if you were to stop this "abuse" you would destroy the lives of millions of chinese. Makes no since.

Yes, abolition did truly terrible things to the Negro...

The Ivory Coast is engaging in chattel slavery?