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crystalmerchant ,

i am so so so surprised

Draedron ,

Nice! Giving kids jobs /s

boatsnhos931 ,

It tastes better when it’s processed by the hands of 3rd world country children… blood and sweat of the innocent, scrumptious!!!

Quexotic ,

What the phrase I see floating around? There’s no such thing as ethical capitalism?

CorvusVoid77 ,

Cocoa is so obscure and bitter and gets processed so heavily to produce even a close approximation of “chocolate”, why don’t we just use broccoli? Process broccoli into broccolate, stop underpaying cocoa farmers who have to break the law and impoverish their own families and workers to make ends meet. Fuckn corpo clowns.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Could just eat a bag of sugar. Taste pretty much the same.

IHadTwoCows ,

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    afraid_of_zombies ,

    Had chocolate in Europe marginally better. It just tastes like lumps of sugar too me.

    CorvusVoid77 ,

    Hehehe!

    Blue_Morpho ,

    Because it’s cheaper to use child labor than synthesize addictive phenylethylamine and add it to processed broccoli.

    greenmarty ,

    When i read title like this I can’t help but wonder, are those kids going to better off without their income though ? My humble guess is that not every family have parents who can support their kids or have access to social care system that can prevent whole family to scrap by to be able to get by.

    20hzservers ,

    I think the answer is the parents of those kids need to be able to make a living that can support their children. Yes they might be worse off if they lose that income but that misses the bigger issue that children shouldn’t need to earn an income to help support their families.

    20hzservers ,

    I think the answer is the parents of those kids need to be able to make a living that can support their children. Yes they might be worse off if they lose that income but that misses the bigger issue that children shouldn’t need to earn an income to help support their families.

    greenmarty ,

    That is obvious yet it doesn’t happened but i somehow don’t see it would happened by e.g. closing the chocolate factories or something like that.

    blujan ,

    As soon as child labor truly disappears, the workers pool is reduced and workers compensation must go up. Child labor only benefits the companies paying less.

    20hzservers ,

    Exactly you don’t shuy down chocolate production that’s not the evil part, chocolate is delicious and I love it. You shut down the child slavery.

    banneryear1868 ,

    There was a CIA sponsored coup d’etat in Ghana that put the National Liberation Council government in power, they made sure resources in the country could be extracted by private entities at the lowest possible cost.

    US foreign policy is based on exploiting resources around the world for private profit at the expense of the local population, hence the fascist coups they’ve implemented particularly in South America the last half century to ensure these sort of resources aren’t nationalized or kept out of the hands of private corporations.

    trackcharlie ,

    I absolutely detest these incompetent trash journalists pretending like this is JUST a mars problem.

    If you’ve ever eaten chocolate or seen chocolate on a shelf a child slave was used to acquire it.

    There is not a single large-scale chocolate operation that does not utilize child slavery in the supply chain and pretending like this is ‘only a mars issue’ is fucking disgusting

    echodot ,

    Fair trade chocolate exists of course

    danciestlobster ,

    Fair trade is quite a fallable system too unfortunately. And the honest answer is it isn’t truly known what chocolate has slavery involved for just regular child labor but it is fairly safe to assume most at least are likely to involve it, even fair trade and other similar certifications

    PolarisFx ,
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    Yea apparently the farms know in advance about the inspections and move the kids somewhere else during inspection and they’re back the next day.

    IHadTwoCows ,

    Tony’s Chocolonely whenever possible

    cleverusernametry ,

    Source? Especially that it’s slavery and not just the children working on the family farm

    PolarisFx ,
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    John Oliver did a Halloween episode on the cocoa industry, and yea its slavery by a different name. Kids are getting sent to the “family farm” but never see their family again

    youtu.be/FwHMDjc7qJ8?si=tmT-ryxtXdTdAq0a

    trackcharlie ,

    Here’s a wide variety of sources/dates to get you started since this is something that, much like the oil industry and climate change, has been massively lied about in the media in order to prevent any action from forming against the associated companies because that would actually negatively impact them. (Maybe, I personally doubt it since all ‘off brand’ and ‘no name brand’ shit is just name brand with shittier packaging now days, there’s zero competition in this market and zero incentive for these corporations to improve when all they have to do is cause a controversy to offend an active group on twitter to have any serious discourse of their court cases disappear in a jumble of brainless arguments over superficial garbage).

    www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57522186cocoarunners.com/…/the-dark-history-of-chocolate-…foodispower.org/…/slavery-chocolate/theguardian.com/…/mars-nestle-and-hershey-to-face…

    Additionally an honors thesis with all the associated references inside: …library.albany.edu/…/viewcontent.cgi?article=100…

    There’s only extremely small farms that are not run by slavery and that chocolate does not make it to north american or european markets, regardless of what the stickers say.

    cnbc.com/…/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-nestle…courthousenews.com/candy-giants-sued-over-failure…

    www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/…/19-416_i4dj.pdflaw.com/…/backed-by-big-law-hershey-nestle-dodge-…

    The sugar industry and all related industries are industries of death, they only profit by stealing tax incentives after bribing politicians and using slavery, they don’t need or want to make money they’re just in it for the mergers and acquisitions which can suppress competition, hide losses, and increase their own power over the markets they work in, at the expense of everyone’s health (with the amount of sugar in food these days) and at the expense of peoples freedom.

    Here’s an investigation by cbs that was released yesterday which has child slaves (as young as five years old) active as late as last week: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/…/ar-AA1kKztT

    And here’s basically the same findings from 20 years ago www.cbsnews.com/news/cocoa-and-slavery/ which, of course, all the associated companies said they ‘fixed the problem with our third party suppliers that were using slavery without telling us’ and then they get off by buying the judge.

    Slavery never stopped we just exported it to get people to stop bitching.

    STRIKINGdebate2 ,
    @STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world avatar

    And nobody actually cares. You’d expect protests whenever something like this comes out? You’d expect people to at least kick up a stink. But, no move on to the next thing. Kinda sad how little outrage there actually is to this shit. Heck, even the general attitude towards this facf from the comments here is “shrugs Well what did you expect”.

    lolcatnip ,

    It has been an open secret for years. John Oliver did a show on it not long ago.

    People become resigned to things they don’t think they can change, especially (but not always) when it doesn’t affect them personally.

    OtakuAltair , (edited )

    Most people here are from the west and have been conditioned their entire life by western media to not think about it.

    People understanding how fucked up their country is would mean protests and riots after all, and threaten those in power.

    banneryear1868 , (edited )

    I think many people understand the capitalist economic arrangement they’re in requires externalizing the suffering it causes. A lot of political causes people align with are based around morally absolving this conflict on an individual basis, almost in a ritualistic way, but in a way that doesn’t threaten their position within the system. These are the same causes the system recognizes as the most legitimate as well, it’s a self-reinforcing mechanism to deal with internalized discontent. Just consume the correct products with the right intentions and show that you’ve done this to be momentarily absolved, almost like a religion.

    MilitantAtheist ,

    I would never buy products that are the result of child labor. Children have no sense of quality. The products would be sub-standard.

    /s

    qarbone ,

    Our products are built by only the most discerning 6 year olds we could source. They know quality they will never have the luxury of experiencing for themselves when they see it (from miles away).

    echodot ,

    That’s why I’m going to start a competing company that only uses adult slave labour. Were all about attention to detail.

    CrayonRosary ,

    It’s the same with products from China. Chinese slaves just don’t take pride in their work anymore.

    boatsnhos931 ,

    Little sticky handed bastards

    daw_germany ,

    https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/0d0df906-737f-4049-b69b-04114d1c6fb8.jpeg

    FinishingDutch ,
    @FinishingDutch@lemmy.world avatar

    With their price increases over the years - all the while shrinking and worsening the product - I’m reaaaallly wondering where that money’s ending up. Because they sure as shit aren’t paying their workers enough either.

    null ,

    I have 3 guesses, but I only need 1.

    MrShankles ,

    It it a jackal?! It’s a jackal, isn’t it?

    Astronautical ,

    And in other news, water is wet

    Linechecker ,

    Yeah? That water is produced by the sweat of children in sweatshops.

    RizzRustbolt ,

    Again…

    M0oP0o ,
    @M0oP0o@mander.xyz avatar

    But, we knew this already? <a href="">https://www.worldvision.com.au/docs/default-source/publications/human-rights-and-trafficking/our-guilty-pleasure.pdf?sfvrsn=927aec3c_4</a>

    whaleross ,
    @whaleross@lemmy.world avatar

    Why is it so fucking hard for company executives to just be a decent human being? Damn.

    lolcatnip ,

    And why is it so hard to prosecute them when they’re not?

    DrDickHandler ,

    They make the rules.

    OtakuAltair ,

    Organize/join protests and unions if you don’t like it. It’s the only to make the ruling class do something in a class based society.

    CosmicCleric ,
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    Why is it so fucking hard for company executives to just be a decent human being?

    The ‘piss you off’ hard truth?

    Because we enable it. We protect it. We allow it.

    We enshrine their rights in corporation laws to do the things they want to do, put profits above people.

    They are not policed, instead they are rewarded by paying those people who would police them not to do so.

    As a society, we allow this to happen.

    So then, what kind of people would gravitate to running a corporation, under those conditions? Potential unlimited power, with potential no oversight?

    Fuck, I’m pissed just writing this.

    OtakuAltair ,

    B-but publicly owned regulated companies is Socialism

    https://a.pinatafarm.com/320x320/8c01a80ee2/crying-emoji-dies.jpg

    OtakuAltair , (edited )

    Because Capitalism rewards greed and exploitative behaviour. Only natural for those kinds of people to rise to the top under this system.

    If you want change, join/organize protests, unions, and Socialist movements.

    electrogamerman ,

    It is not only in benefit of those people, but also of the countries they live in, and that’s why capitalism rewards exploitative behavior.

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