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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Saturday, February 14, 2004 ::
Some not-so-sweets for your sweet by Thomas Y. Hobart, New York Teacher
For Valentine's Day, M&Ms/Mars makes a really cute pink cane filled with, naturally, M&Ms. Kids love them, although the candy might not taste so sweet if we thought about where the chocolate came from.
While American children are gobbling up green and yellow and red and blue M&Ms, hundreds of thousands of African children are being forced by economic hardship to pick the cocoa leaves to make the chocolate that goes inside. Even worse, more than 12,000 of those children are actual slaves, separated from their families, denied basic human rights and needs, and destined to live lives devoid of any freedom.
More than two-thirds of the world's cocoa is harvested by children in Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and the Ivory Coast. If they had the time or inclination to think about it, Valentine's Day would seem ironic: child labor being used to produce the sweet taste of Cupid's holiday. But there's no irony, only tragedy.------------------------------------------- posted 7:02 PM :: reference link ::
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