World celebrated the international Freedom Day on March 25th. The only problem is that slavery is alive and kicking at this very moment. It touches more people than did the slavery of Africans, yet governments and individuals act as if powerless in front of it. The English people stopped buying their sugar because of moral issues. Are we prepared to do the same?
Most of the cocoa used for chocolate comes from one single place, namely Ivory Coast. Children, 12 000 of them, are being trafficked into that country from its own villages and other African countries. They are tiny poor kids, beaten mercilessly and killed when no longer useful to the farm owners. Are you prepared to forgo your chocolate? Most chocolate comes from that horrible place. Could you at the very least go to your local supermarket or write to the chocolate makers? Ask them if they can guarantee that no slaves were used to work the cocoa they use. Don't ask them about their social programs. They may well have plenty them.
But that is no help when they use slavery in this century.
We have to stop the traffic and the only way is to hurt them where it hurts. Don't buy chocolate if in doubt whose little suffering hands made that chocolate bar possible...
posted by Emilia.kk @ 9:53 PM
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