Where does your
chocolate come from?
Dear chocoholic,
Put the
chocolate down!! You eat chocolate everyday but yet you don’t know where it
comes from. Some children’s have never had a child hood because guess what they’re
doing, there making chocolate for others. They make chocolate everyday but they
have never tasted chocolate. They suffer a lot. They get cut with machetes and
they get burned with the chemicals form the plants, and all of this isn’t even
the beginning. According to the article child slavery and chocolate: all too
easy to find, “scars crisscross yacous legs from a machete.”
There are a
lot of INSANE people in this world, especially people that own child labor businesses.
Children are sent out to cut cocoa pods with machetes. The plants have a
chemical that burns your skin plus the sun beams on their skin as well. These kids
don’t even get to sleep and if they do it’s like 2 hours. Do you think that’s enough
sleep for a child?
The courses
of actions you could take are buying fair trade chocolate. Fair trade chocolate
is chocolate that isn’t made by child labor. According to the article “Don’t be
tricked by Halloween treats “, “…times have changed in the United States ,yet
children across the globe still work under unconscionable conditions to satisfy
our sweet tooth”
All the
chocolate we enjoy is made from pain. Little children suffering to pick the
football sized cocoa beans. Just for their milky white cocoa beans, to make
chocolate we eat. Sincerely, Jaylin Morillo
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