Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation
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#2Charge the CEOs of companies that buy cocoa with child abuse.
Re: Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation
#3> Munira, 15, is one of those children. [...] Last year, her family harvested only one bag of decent-quality cocoa. A 140-pound bag of the product fetches only about $115.
Sounds like "child labor" is downstream of the actual problem.
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#4> Munira, 15, is one of those children. She has worked in the cocoa fields since she was 5 years old. Education is a luxury, with her school an hour-long walk away and transportation options expensive. Last year, her family harvested only one bag of decent-quality cocoa. A 140-pound bag of the product fetches only about $115.
I think child labor is actually a symptom of a deeper problem and cracking down on child labor without providing better financial support for the families will actually lead to worse problems.
Reading this, it doesn’t sound like if the child wasn’t working harvesting cocoa, she would be in school studying. Likely, either her family would starve or she would be be doing more dangerous work (perhaps even prostitution).
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#5At this point the only things I can eat ethically are sawdust and cockroaches
Re: Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation
#6Charge the CEOs of companies that buy cocoa with child abuse.
They were charged, but the Supreme Court ruled in their favor.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/supreme-court-rules-in-favor...
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#7> Munira, 15, is one of those children. She has worked in the cocoa fields since she was 5 years old. Education is a luxury, with her school an hour-long walk away and transportation options expensive. Last year, her family harvested only one bag of decent-quality cocoa. A 140-pound bag of the product fetches only about $115. I think child labor is actually a symptom of a deeper problem and cracking down on child lab…
150 years ago child labour in the West was common.
If you can barely afford food then everyone needs to work to earn money.
I'm kind of in two minds, from their point of view there's probably nothing wrong, but that's incompatible with our morals. But then we obviously aren't willing to pay for those morals.
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#8At this point the only things I can eat ethically are sawdust and cockroaches
Is that FSC certified sawdust, or are you destroying an old-growth rainforest?
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#9John Oliver did a segment on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHMDjc7qJ8
He went into the whole child labor thing.
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