Friday, November 30, 2007
Update
So most of you know that I am still waiting for my visa. I have turned in more papers and they tell me it will be a month more. That will be around Christmas time. Hmmm...will I ever get there? I'll write more on this soon. I've also decided that at the very least, I will post around the 15th of each month b/c that's when I have to send out my updates to my Young Adult Missionary Community.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Modern day slavery
Check out the video below...
"M&M Mars and Hershey Foods Corp. are not alone. Other companies whose chocolate is almost certainly tainted with child slavery include: ADM Cocoa, Ben & Jerry’s, Cadbury Ltd., Chocolates by Bernard Callebaut, Fowler’s Chocolate, Godiva, Guittard Chocolate Company, Kraft, Nestle, See’s Candies, The Chocolate Vault, and Toblerone. While most of these companies have issued condemnations of slavery, and expressed a great deal of moral outrage that it exists in the industry, they each have acknowledged that they use Ivory Coast cocoa and so have no grounds to ensure consumers that their products are slavery-free"
"There are in fact many chocolate companies who only use cocoa that has definitively not been produced with slave labor. Clif Bar, Cloud Nine, Dagoba Organic Chocolate, Denman Island Chocolate, Gardners Candies, Green and Black’s, Kailua Candy Company, Koppers Chocolate, L.A. Burdick Chocolates, Montezuma’s Chocolates, Newman’s Own Organics, Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company, Rapunzel Pure Organics, and The Endangered Species Chocolate Company"
"At present, no organic cocoa beans are coming from Ivory Coast, so organic chocolate is unlikely to be tainted by slavery."
I got the above info from: http://earthsave.org/newsletters/chocolate.htm
I've been doing a lot of reading on this and I've found similar info in many places. I don't think boycotting is the answer, there needs to be pressure put on these companies to do something about the situation. They are the ones with the money, money talks. I have read that due to an increase in public awareness, progress is starting to be made. So...we will see...
My soul moans for those suffering. How can I stop from being a part of that suffering. Everything I buy, eat, wear...it is so hard to avoid being a part of it without even realizing... And then how do I move on and work towards alleviating that suffering?
"M&M Mars and Hershey Foods Corp. are not alone. Other companies whose chocolate is almost certainly tainted with child slavery include: ADM Cocoa, Ben & Jerry’s, Cadbury Ltd., Chocolates by Bernard Callebaut, Fowler’s Chocolate, Godiva, Guittard Chocolate Company, Kraft, Nestle, See’s Candies, The Chocolate Vault, and Toblerone. While most of these companies have issued condemnations of slavery, and expressed a great deal of moral outrage that it exists in the industry, they each have acknowledged that they use Ivory Coast cocoa and so have no grounds to ensure consumers that their products are slavery-free"
"There are in fact many chocolate companies who only use cocoa that has definitively not been produced with slave labor. Clif Bar, Cloud Nine, Dagoba Organic Chocolate, Denman Island Chocolate, Gardners Candies, Green and Black’s, Kailua Candy Company, Koppers Chocolate, L.A. Burdick Chocolates, Montezuma’s Chocolates, Newman’s Own Organics, Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company, Rapunzel Pure Organics, and The Endangered Species Chocolate Company"
"At present, no organic cocoa beans are coming from Ivory Coast, so organic chocolate is unlikely to be tainted by slavery."
I got the above info from: http://earthsave.org/newsletters/chocolate.htm
I've been doing a lot of reading on this and I've found similar info in many places. I don't think boycotting is the answer, there needs to be pressure put on these companies to do something about the situation. They are the ones with the money, money talks. I have read that due to an increase in public awareness, progress is starting to be made. So...we will see...
My soul moans for those suffering. How can I stop from being a part of that suffering. Everything I buy, eat, wear...it is so hard to avoid being a part of it without even realizing... And then how do I move on and work towards alleviating that suffering?
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