CHOCOLATE CRISIS
Dear Concerned citizen,
Have you ever just sat down and asked yourself 1million questions? Has one of your questions ever been, “Where does the Hershey bar begin its life? Come along on this journey of reading and find out the answer to that question.
Hershey’s delicious chocolate tastes amazing! But believe it or not, it is poisoned with, CHILD LABOR! Chocolate companies like Hershey’s include child labor to make their chocolate. Some people think that the chocolate is just made in factories but, most of the work is done in the cocoa fields, by children. Adults that work in the cocoa fields go to get the children by trafficking them from their homes. Here are some statistics on trafficking from the documentary “The Dark Side of Chocolate”, “In 2006 132 kids were trafficked, in 2007 140 kids were trafficked, and in 2008-2009 150 kids were rescued!” Trafficking is when the adults go on a bus and they ride it asking children if they want a job, to make a lot of money and if the children say yes then they take them and they never return, they don’t even get paid! But what they actually do get is injuries, injuries and more injuries.
You may be eating some chocolate right now tasting how delicious it is but you never know if you’re eating a kid’s infectious blood. Or if one of the kids that made this cut his or her fingers off! You could be eating their blood but instead of just tasting the chocolate. Do you know how these children feel about being trafficked and never being able to go home and see their friends and family again? They are afraid at nights something may happen to them so their terrified. But there are some things that we can do to help stop this.
The best time that chocolate companies sell chocolate is on Valentines Day. This wouldn’t be a problem if they didn’t use child labor, but they do so it’s a big problem. What Hershey’s can do is change their chocolate to fair trade chocolate. Fair trade chocolate is chocolate that does not use child labor because they pay the farmers $150 on top market prices for every ton of coca beans they produce as long as they don’t use child labor. If this is done then the kids would leave this cruel and mistreating place and finally go home!
Just imagine if these children was one of your children or maybe even if it was you! What would you do to help put an end to this?
Yours Sincerely,
Adriana Valdez
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