Children in cocoa production

Ever wonder how such a bitter bean as cocoa can become such a sweet savory food as chocolate? There's a darker story behind how they get this food that is still sadly happening to this day in the Ivory Coast. From child labor, dying animals, and people just doing nothing to stop this. The negatives far outweigh the positives in chocolate production in the Ivory Coast. Chocolate as we all know and love it, is a sweet food that had originally been a bitter drink for the Europeans. As stated in the article, "Is Chocolate Good for Côte d'Ivoire," the word chocolate comes from the Aztecs which translates to mean bitter drink. But that is not the only bitter part of this drink, as stated by article E "Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate…

the production of cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate (Oxford Dictionary, 2015). This helped them become the largest cacao producer in the world today, harvesting a significant percentage of world’s cacao (Abbott, 2013). Although this may seem highly beneficial for the economy of this historically poor countries, the reality is different; a considerable social problematic tied to agricultural production and cultivation…

Chocolate has long been hailed as the “food of the gods” – a sweet, delectable indulgence that allows consumers to experience pure bliss. However, in 2000, True Vision Production shattered this notion with the release of “Slavery, A Global Investigation,” a documentary which exposed the disturbing amount of child slavery behind West Africa’s cocoa industry. Because of this newfound awareness, American consumers with an insatiable desire for chocolate face an ethical dilemma – is indulging in…

Cocoa is a commodity that has been globally known for its addiction and desire. Specifically speaking, cocoa is the raw material that is extracted from beans that have been dried afterwards to get a powder like substance, which is then used to produce the famous “chocolate” (International Cocoa Organization (2014). With every natural resource there is the pros and cons that are associated with it. The same is embedded into cocoa. In this essay, the cons and negative aspects of cocoa will be…

Project) The majority of cocoa used for the production of chocolate is made on…

labor in cocoa production Clusellas Ramon Drago Alba Fernando Lochana Lala Marta Mindlin Tomas 3/23/2015 Table of Contents Introduction to Nestlé 3 The Scandal 4 Legal aspects 5 National Labor Laws 5 2013 National Action Plan 5 The Nestlé Cocoa Plan 6 Helping farmers 6 Improve plantlet expertise 6 Supply chain management 6 Better working conditions 6 Work with various certification and other related NGOs 7 Nestle Cocoa Plan- Child Labor 7 Conclusion 8 Annex 1 9 Annex 2 9 Annex 3…

Creating Fairtrade in the Cocoa Industry The demand for cocoa has increased by at least 5 percent each year since it has developed into an industry. While that demand has been steadily increasing, so has the production of how much cocoa is being produced. While the rapid and steady increase in the need for cocoa, nations who are main producers do not have the adequate agricultural practices to supply nations with enough cocoa around the world. In the long history of the cocoa industry,…

Carol off, a Canadian journalist, travels into the jungle of West Africa to uncover the truth behind the worlds most seductive sweet, cocoa. In her book “Bitter chocolate” she reveals how much blood and horror is mixed into producing the regular chocolate bar on the shelfs you see in your local super markets. She later shows us the history of chocolate, from the Spanish who learn about it from the Aztecs and enslave them forcing them into labour intensive crop harvest and dried with slave…

and children who get no education, right? Wrong. You probably thought of crying children who can’t see their families for years at a time. Well it may be hard to believe, but those kids are the backbone of the chocolate industry. 10-year-old Emmanuel wakes up at 6am and gets ready to work in the cocoa fields. As he is walking, he sees other kids walking the other way, towards school. At sunrise, he reaches the fields and uses his machete to slice cocoa pods from the tree. Then he carries the…

A plump kid in America bites into a chocolate. A scarred, fatigued child in the Ivory Coast hacks his way through the bean pods on the cocoa tree using a machete. The boy in America grumbles his way through school and wonders when he can go home to play video games. The boy in Africa throws a sack of bean pods over his shoulder that is much too heavy for him. At the end of the day the privileged kid will climb into his bed with no worries. The child slave will climb into bed, exhausted, with no…