Dark Side of Chocolate
Dear fellow chocoholic,
Do you know where the awesome taste of chocolate that
everyone loves and enjoy comes from? Well I guess you ask the factories. The
sweet taste of chocolate is made from child labor.
In cocoa plantations kids play a role. While we are
enjoying our chocolate, kids are starving in Africa. According to the article
‘child slavery and chocolate’. Kids can’t keep the grass clean without cutting
themselves. This shows the impact it has on kids. Sometimes the chemicals get
into their cuts and it gets really infected .In addition the chemicals that
burn your skin plus the sun that beams on you that burns your skin as well. The
kids don’t really get enough sleep and if they do they don’t get enough, it’s
like 2 hours. Do you think that’s enough for a person that works non-stop all
day? Do you think is fair?
The courses of actions we could take are buying fair
trade chocolate. Fair trade chocolate is chocolate that’s not made by child
labor. According to the article “Don’t be Tricked by Halloween Treats’’ Times
have changed in the U.S but yet children around the globe still work under
unconscionable conditions to satisfy our sweet tooth. We are all wrong! we
supposed to love people and use money, but right now we are loving money and
using people.
Most of the chocolate we enjoy comes from pain. Kids in Africa
are working around cocoa plantations with heavy machetes that are almost their size,
cutting down cocoa pots that are the size of a football. Just to make the milky
delicious chocolate we all love to eat. We have to make a change the government hasn't taken full interest in this case. Let us spread the word about the real
story behind the chocolate we eat.
sincerely,
Yeidy Diaz
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