“Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime,” said Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian activist and founder of the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation. For many centuries, different forms of child labors existed all over the world. Although for the past decades or so, child labor has been prohibited in countries, and others have increased. Even in America, we may not have child labor, but we have eaten, the blood, sweat, and tears that the children in African chocolate companies have shed to make our delicious sweets. America should not trade with chocolate companies in Africa that encourage child labor to raise the economy in the
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While consuming chocolate products, many ingredients cause the awful effects towards human health. For example, chocolate has two large factors that can increase the risk of heart disease which is saturated fat and dietary cholesterol (Lee). Dietary cholesterol is harmful to the body for it will build walls in the arteries that brings blood to the brain and back to the heart. As the wall builds up in the arteries while the owner consumes more chocolate and dietary cholesterol, the arteries begin to stiffen, creating a condition called atherosclero. Unable to receive the proper amount of blood circulating in to the heart due to the blood clot, the higher risk the person would receive a sudden heart attack or stroke ( “Cholesterol 101”). Saturated fat also causes the body’s health to reduce. In addition, “The American Heart Association recommends limiting saturated fats… Decades of sound science has proven it can raise your “bad” cholesterol and put you at higher risk for heart disease” (“Saturated Fat"). On the other hand, some may argue that chocolate included a large amount of catechins that benefits heart health, and that the benefits outweigh the downside effects of the chocolate. This assumption would be incorrect for the most part. Even though the chocolate does contain the catechins, the manufacturing process greatly lowers the levels of the catechins. Furthermore, chocolate would have an abundant amount unsaturated fat as well as dietary cholesterol (“Chocolate Nutrition Facts”). Lastly, America should stop trading the with African chocolate companies to reduce the health
While consuming chocolate products, many ingredients cause the awful effects towards human health. For example, chocolate has two large factors that can increase the risk of heart disease which is saturated fat and dietary cholesterol (Lee). Dietary cholesterol is harmful to the body for it will build walls in the arteries that brings blood to the brain and back to the heart. As the wall builds up in the arteries while the owner consumes more chocolate and dietary cholesterol, the arteries begin to stiffen, creating a condition called atherosclero. Unable to receive the proper amount of blood circulating in to the heart due to the blood clot, the higher risk the person would receive a sudden heart attack or stroke ( “Cholesterol 101”). Saturated fat also causes the body’s health to reduce. In addition, “The American Heart Association recommends limiting saturated fats… Decades of sound science has proven it can raise your “bad” cholesterol and put you at higher risk for heart disease” (“Saturated Fat"). On the other hand, some may argue that chocolate included a large amount of catechins that benefits heart health, and that the benefits outweigh the downside effects of the chocolate. This assumption would be incorrect for the most part. Even though the chocolate does contain the catechins, the manufacturing process greatly lowers the levels of the catechins. Furthermore, chocolate would have an abundant amount unsaturated fat as well as dietary cholesterol (“Chocolate Nutrition Facts”). Lastly, America should stop trading the with African chocolate companies to reduce the health