The Challenge to Make Chocolate Child Labour Free (Part 1/3)
Jul.08, 2010 in
Tech and Science
There are over a quarter of a million children who work in the cocoa plantations of West Africa. It’s hazardous work, which exposes children to highly toxic pesticides. This episode of the BBC World TV series “Survivors Guide” goes to Cameroon, where the International Labour Organization has been working to eliminate child labour from cocoa production and help children return to school. Produced by Rockhopper TV in cooperation with the ILO.
July 8th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
The question to all western consumers is: do you want to consume a product which has been produced by the slavery of children as young as eight years old?
Can you honestly enjoy a NESTLE bar of chocolate knowing that a child has been salve driven in a mosquito infested jungle for ten hours a day to produce it without schooling and for a wage of less than 50 cents?
I won’t buy any chocolate again until I know different.
July 8th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
slavery will never end when mankind exist
July 8th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
It is now the 21st century–when will slavery end?
July 8th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
This is a sad reallity.
we just learned about this in school.