Ok so now chocolate is no only makes you fat, but buying it support child labor in some cases. I could have done without knowing this Here is the article
I don’t think the US competes for business in the cocoa bean trade, I just stumbled across this news looking for trade news on the web. The relationship to this sites topic is how do you compete with countries that treat their children like this? These third world countries are so poor that they will pimp out their children for slave labor.
We should not do business with countries that allow this crap. Now I do now that the people do this stuff because there is nothing else to do for a living, not because they pass up good jobs for these. But if the world really wants to help, maybe were slave labor is involved the world should (and this hurts to say) regulate the price and make sure it trickles down. I know that sounds crazy and would probably not work, but problems like this are just sick. Children can’t be children because they world they live in is vile, corrupt, and ignorant. It is hard to believe we live in the same world.
What is the answer?
There are some specialty chocolate products (such as Choxie) that say where the beans come from. However, this is rare. Some of the Choxie chocolate contains beans from Africa and some of it contains beans from Latin America. However, some of the beans also come from Venezeula which would mean supporting Hugo Chavez.