Turn Dark Into Light by: Stephanie Lopez 601

 Turn Dark into Light!

           

    Dear Chocolate Lover, J

        

 Did you ever take a look at a chocolate company and see if          it’s fair trade? I’ll tell you what fair trade is. Fair trade is when a chocolate company has farmers working for them but in a less harsh way. The farmers actually get paid in good/fair money. “The farmers from whom this company gets the cocoa, they are paid fairly.” Not all chocolate companies have fair trade, they have child labor. You could be eating chocolate that includes child labor. Life would be better without child labor, kids deserve more freedom.

 Children from child labor have or come up with big and severe injuries. According to the text, “There is an outrageous number of children who are suffering from horrible back pain and other ergonomic neck issues between the ages of 5 and 18 just so we can have chocolate.” This is an example that kids are risking their lives working. They do all this work just to let people around the world to have chocolate. It’s very upsetting to see these kids get hurt for us.

 These children have their ways working on the farms. They use some tools that are very dangerous, like machetes. With the machetes they cut open the cocoa pods they picked. According to the article, “ ‘One of the concerns we’ve seen is that some of the activities children are involved in are inappropriate to their age: carrying heavy loads, using machetes on farms,’ said Billy Guyton.” These are the tools that make the children risk their lives in danger.

 In conclusion, chocolate can be very good yet threatening to children. Child labor has children working very hard, getting injured. Just for the world to have their delicious chocolate.

                                        Sincerely, Stephanie Lopez 601