so i saw the sweatshops thread and i thought this would be a good place for this.

sweatshops are exaclty like cocoa farms... except only worse, because they do have slavery, beatings, barely any rest, and physical challenges.

most of the american chocolate companies buy their cocoa from these companies

www.radicalthought.org

there you go, read your *** off. i hope we can stop buying from them.

my aunt is a radical nun yes she is radical she has been aressted has a T-shirt that says slavery with the nike V

Our new uniforms for *PIZZAZ* are Nike Brand.

Wow, i knew that shoes and stuff were made in sweatshops, but i had no clue that chocolate was. I don't buy nike shoes because they are made in sweatshops, but I'm not sure if the other shoes i get are made in sweatshops or not.

WHAT?!?!?!?!?
I didn't know this was happening!!!
Still....chocolate is good for the soul....I guess...Ghiridelli and Scharfennberger, especially the latter, are soooo expensive for chocolate that they SHOUlD be pure and not use slaves and stuff. That really sucks. But still, where would the world be without chocollate? I hope the labor gets free choclate but I doubt they do. I'm conflicting myself, time to stop.....

boy if they put nicotine in choclate you'd have a smoking cure but yeah sweatshop stuff isn't good but from their view it's "at least I have a job"

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I have been choclate free since october 31st.

wow northstar you have my respect! i could never go that long without choclate... (although i do my best to buy it at my local co-op)

Buy FairTrade chocolate! It's yummy.

I have been chocolate free since October 31st.

Iamastar:
Were you under the impression that machines do all of our work? Tobacco is another crop that requires being hand picked and is very unpleasant. Illegal Aliens get paid under minimum wage to pick this tobacco so that you can smoke it and kill yourself.

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And a majority of American chocolate is made in America. Giradelhi-San Francisco
Hersey-Pennslyvania
Nestle-American based company.

Where the chocolate is made has nothing to do with where the cocoa is grown. The topic is about the conditions of the cocoa farms.

Wow, the name of your source is RADICAlthought. Doesn't that mean it's probably bias. And a majority of American chocolate is made in America. Giradelhi-San Francisco
Hersey-Pennslyvania
Nestle-American based company.

That quote at the top of the article is a disgusting thought.

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Originally posted by iamastar:
I don't know if this fits in with this subject but I guess it fits here better than anywhere else. This past summer I went out to the West coast and I say the big fields everywhere. I don't know exactly what was being grown but something was because I say people out there working to pick and collect whatever was growing in the fields. I thought it was strange to see this happing here in America.

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Where did you go on the coast? Up in the wine country and down in the valley (where all the crops are grown) most of the people who pick the crops are immigrant workers, generally from Mexico. They have unions and stuff, so I wouldn't worry about them too much.

Bushism of the day:
"I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed in the atmosphere, and they say, man, you're looking pretty." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Nov. 4, 2004

“I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back.” ~Hawkeye, M*A*S*H, "O.R."

Society's mentality is if it looks OK it is OK.

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Originally posted by VeRtiCaLxLiMiT:
Hmm that's interesting. But I don't think an article is going to put such a large industry out of business.

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Yeah...unfortunately. It's just like the Cambodian Levi's factories, everybody knows what happens in them, but nobody cares.

Hmm that's interesting. But I don't think an article is going to put such a large industry out of business.

I'm never eating another Snickers in my life.

Well, I'm never eating Mars products ever again. This is appalling. Human slavery is larger than you think. I have read there is slavery in India and the far East.

I don't know if this fits in with this subject but I guess it fits here better than anywhere else. This past summer I went out to the West coast and I say the big fields everywhere. I don't know exactly what was being grown but something was because I say people out there working to pick and collect whatever was growing in the fields. I thought it was strange to see this happing here in America.