The human cost of chocolate

[Heracles 417]

Chocolate's bittersweet economy

The human cost of chocolate

Seven years after the industry agreed to abolish child labor, little progress has been made. Seventy percent of the world's cocoa beans are grown in West Africa, where working and living conditions are brutal and many workers are underage.

By Christian Parenti. Photographs by Jessica Dimmock

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortun...tune/index.html

Very Interesting..

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

Sad and wrong, but... Well... I'm not stopping my personal chocolate consumption.

[Mags 112]

When I was in the UK they had a good amount of Fair Trade products for sale (tea bags, choc, clothing, sugar, coffee etc). I'd always buy them when I could. I wish there was more here in the USA.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Chocolate tastes good. Thank you, child laborers! Stay strong and don't stop!

Edited February 17, 2008 by VJ Troll

[mawilson 2,133]

Chocolate tastes good. Thank you, child laborers! Stay strong and don't stop!

Tastes even better when you know that little children work hard day and night to make it.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

Chocolate tastes good. Thank you, child laborers! Stay strong and don't stop!

Tastes even better when you know that little children work hard day and night to make it.

let's all boycott valentine's day

[msu17 0]

Let's all boycott Hershey's, its ####### anyways! I totally agree with the free trade... Usually tastes better too

[mawilson 2,133]

Let's all boycott Hershey's, its ####### anyways! I totally agree with the free trade... Usually tastes better too

Yes, but nothing like the sweet taste of sweat, blood and tears of young children and the bitter tang of hopelessness.

[britty 1]

I would like to say that I will protest outside of Godiva's, but I fear the smell of the vanilla truffle will force me to abandon my picket.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

Let's all boycott Hershey's, its ####### anyways! I totally agree with the free trade... Usually tastes better too

Yes, but nothing like the sweet taste of sweat, blood and tears of young children and the bitter tang of hopelessness.

mixed with low wages

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Let's all boycott Hershey's, its ####### anyways! I totally agree with the free trade... Usually tastes better too

Yes, but nothing like the sweet taste of sweat, blood and tears of young children and the bitter tang of hopelessness.

mixed with low wages

Hellz yeah!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Another bleeding heart, mushy liberal drivel of a post. When are going to come out and admit that you an anti-American communist?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

When I was in the UK they had a good amount of Fair Trade products for sale (tea bags, choc, clothing, sugar, coffee etc). I'd always buy them when I could. I wish there was more here in the USA.

A clear and simple way to exercise ethical responsibility. Nothing wrong with that.

[jundp 191]

When I was in the UK they had a good amount of Fair Trade products for sale (tea bags, choc, clothing, sugar, coffee etc). I'd always buy them when I could. I wish there was more here in the USA.

I am the same here with coffee as well. I figure I buy enough of the stuff (coffee) that I might as well pay $2 more a pound and make sure it's fair trade.

Have you ever tried this: http://divine.serrv.org/crs/cart.php I have bought Divine chocolate for years and it's excellent.

[Reba 2]

Ten Tousand Villages sells fair trade and organic chocolate, as well as a whole bunch of really cool stuff

I buy fair trade when I can, there's not much of it outside of specialtiy shops around here, but wonder of wonders, Sam's Club has a fair trade coffee!