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Slavery

Child Workers

-Unpaid work is slavery

-Most have never eaten chocolate

-The majority of child workers are slaves

-This way large chocolate companies get cocoa from dirt cheap labor

Worst Forms of Child Labor

-Child workers use dangerous tools (machete, pesticides)

- Sometimes whipped for not working fast enough or for running away

-Some child workers and adults are locked up at night so they cannot try to escape

- About 1.8 million children are involved in what is called the "worst forms of child labor"

- These include things "likely to harm the health, safety, or morals of children"

or anything that does not allow them to go to school

-Usually between ages 12-16

-As young as 5 years old

-Some work for a year, but others work most of life

Not the Worst Part

-Some children are sold to be workers on cocoa farms (child trafficking)

-Some are tricked into thinking they will be paid well

-Others are not paid for their work, which means . . .

-Work starts at 6 A.M. and ends when it gets dark

-Many children do not have a chance to go to school and get an education

Solutions

Engel-Harkin Protocol

Conclusion

-The Engel-Harkin Protocol was signed in Sept. 2001 by large chocolate corporations

-No child labor by 2005

-Extention to 2008

-New treaty signed in 2010

-70% less child labor by 2020

-The chocolate companies that use cocoa beans made with child labor can pay the farmers fair prices

-Then cocoa workers would not need child labor

-Hershey's, Mars, and Nestle make enough resources to pay cocoa farmers fairly and stop child labor/slavery

-Only buy chocolate that is fair trade approved

Chocolate Production

Large Chocolate Companies

-Hershey's, Mars, Nestle, and others are aware of child labor

- They have done little to nothing

-The chocolate industry makes $60 billion annually

-The West African countries of Ghana and the Ivory Coast produce about 70% of the cocoa beans used to make chocolate in the world

-They supply large companies such as Hershey's, Mars, Nestle, and others

Cocoa Workers

-Large companies need cheap chocolate ingredients

-Pay cocoa workers very little

-Cocoa Workers make an average of $2 per day

-Below poverty line

-The workers want to stay competitive and need to survive

Slavery in Chocolate

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