“Chocolate’s Truth” by Jullian Bennett

                                                         

Dear Candy Craver,

       You know the delectable taste of chocolate almost

every one loves? Well where does it come from? The factories right? Wrong. Think deeper into chocolate. This sweet treat is slave made. Child labor. Children are stolen, trafficked, and forced to work on cocoa farms. This is the truth for you as seen in the documentary "The Dark Side of Chocolate"

       Can you imagine being a child stolen from home took to work on plantations? Down in Africa, the Ivory Coast holds many trafficked children. Child trafficking is importing or moving a child from one place to another illegally. This is a vicious problem  situation with child labor. According to Abdul, a victim of child labor it was very painful. He had cuts spread around his body. Many of the kids felt as if freedom was not a thing. They did neither experience nor know what it was.According to,'' Child slavery and chocolate : All too easy to find '',by CNN'S Freedom Project '' .... scars crisscross Yacou's legs from a machete. He can't clear grass in the cocoa fields without cutting himself.''

       The children play most roles in collecting and cropping the cocoa pods. They use machetes to cut the branches dropping the cocoa pods. This is a very dangerous environment for kids. They also lay the cocoa beans to dry in the very hot sun. In spite of being very unfair is still performed.

       In conclusion, when will this end? I’ll tell you. Caring. People have to make a bigger effort. Buy fair trade chocolate, raise awareness among the public about the cost of chocolate, write letters to chocolate companies, raise pay to farmers, arrest the bad people who do this, and re-unite these children with their families. Make chocolate companies’ child labor free.