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I learned that children or being forced to work in a dangerous place and sometime die trying to get the cocoa beans.

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These problems should be addressed by everybody not eating chocolate from all of these companies because it can be a peaceful protest. It will also send a point to chocolate factories, that they should do something about this, they should put in more action into this situation.

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I think there are many human rights that have been ignored or banished from the lives of the people in the Ivory Coast. Including...
1) We are all born free and equal
4) No slavery
22) Social security, we all have the right to affordable housing, medicine, education, and childcare, enough money to live on
24) the right to play and rest/relax from work
25) food and shelter for all
26) the right to education
28) a fair and free world
30) no one can take away your human rights

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What I learned from this mini-unit was that we take chocolate for grant it.

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I think that cocoa farming is bad because kids are being taken from their homes and school bus stops. This violates article 26 The Right to Education. Education is a right. kids shouldn't be taken away from their homes and schools to work on some stranger's farm with very bad living and working conditions and sharp, dangerous objects.

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I think the Ivory Coast is violating   #22 human right. This human right is “We all have the right to affordable housing, medicine, education, and childcare, enough money to live on and medical help if we are ill or old,” all the farmers don't get enough money, most of them live in poverty, they don't get enough money. The farmers are the least paid.

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In the Video the Dark side of Chocolate I was suprised that the bus driver knows of this happening and does nothing to stop it.

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I agree that kids should be brought back to their families.
I also think that kids should always stay with there parents for the rest of their lives and as long as they live.
They should NEVER be taken away from there families EVER again.

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1) Do you feel coca is good for the Ivory Coast?
I believe that cocoa is bad for the Ivory Coast because it has made a massive increase of child labor (over 1.8 million children working), many of Africa's native species have gone missing in the region of the Ivory Coast and Ghana and lastly, it has brought destruction to the people's lives. The homes of animals and people have been ruined due to the world wide cocoa problem.

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Do you feel cocoa is good for the Ivory Coast?
I think cocoa farming  is bad for the  Ivory Coast because poverty in farming communities and poor education and healthcare. One reason cocoa farming is bad because in stated in “The Future of Chocolate” one quote I found that was bad is “Poor education and healthcare services and lack electricity and decent sanitation with water only available from communal wells... ”.  I think this is bad because people get sick from the dirty places they live.

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I think that Cocoa farming is good for the Ivory Coast, they need the money. In the document from The Observatory of Economic Complexity it says that 31% of their exports is cocoa, without this they would be even poorer than before.

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The cocoa industry is really bad for the Ivory Coast and Ghana. Child labor, human trafficking, dangerous work, and extreme poverty. People involved in the farming of cocoa experience these issues on a daily basis. The cocoa industry also violates at least 4 United Nations-recognized human rights. As for child labor, many children do dangerous work for little pay. "There have been many corporate-backed attempts to cure the child labor problem. But those efforts have fallen short. Hordes of children continue to work on cocoa farms, some in unsafe conditions." Although many American kids would love to be out of school, but would they want to live in poverty, do dangerous work that could possibly 🤬 you, and be taken away from your education that will shape your future? Many children and their families, in addition to working full-time, live below the poverty line. The DBQ document C shows that cocoa farmers only get 5% of the money from cocoa sales, even when they need the most money and do the hardest work.

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Many people are shming large cocoa producers for endusing and approving child labor, but initiatives have statistics that say different. "On the plus side, the cocoa industry committed $10 million to remedy the problem. That came as part of a 2010 agreement among the cocoa industry, the U.S. Department of Labor and governments of the world’s two largest cocoa producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana" (The Hard Fight to End Child Labor on the West African coast, Newsela, 2018).

So this begs the question: Why is child labor still evident? The child labor numbers are just too extreme in the Ivory Coast, and wages too low, and trafficking of children is high. So many children are earning way less than needed and are in poverty even though chocolate makers are trying to stop labor. “While progress has been made in combating child labor in the cocoa sector since the Harkin-Engel Protocol was signed in 2001, it has not come quickly enough,” (The Hard Fight to End Child Labor on the West African coast, Newsela, 2018).

Going off the topic of trafficking, 1) It is extremely illegal and would result in a long time in prison, 2) There are hundreds of kids shipped without consent to cocoa farms to work. It is almost like the children are robots and they have no life or feelings. They don't have education or a family either. A Bus driver in the Ivory Coast speaks up about this problem. “Trafficking of children has always existed. Always. The children are constantly leaving from the bus station. The children that are going to the Ivory Coast are 12-14 years old.” Says bus a bus driver in Mali, who notices the children on his bus when he drives from Southern Mali to the Ivory Coast. This is from the documentary: The Dark Side of Chocolate.

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I have two questions about the cocoa industry. My first being is that a lot of companies (One of them being Hershey's) have said multiple times that they are helping the Ivory Coast but I would like to see stats that chocolate companies release to see how much they are really helping cocoa farms. The second   question I have is when the Ivory Coast had two civil wars in a matter of nine years when production dropped 247,000 metric tons I would want to see how the rest f the world reacted so you can see really how important that chocolate is to the Ivory Coast and the rest of the world

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I think that it is wrong that kids are being taken away from there families. 

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I think that it is wrong that kids are being taken away from there families. 

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This is not good because then they will never see there families and they will be a foster for the rest of their lives.

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A couple questions I have for cocoa farming after this unit are:
In many of the article and videos, when the person in charge of the cocoa farming or company was asked if they knew of any child labor happening, they said they really didn't. Why is that? Are they hiding something or are they not paying enough attention to the problem?

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Question #1
No, cocoa farming is bad for the Ivory Coast. According to the article, “The Future of Chocolate: Why Cocoa Production is at Risk” one of the reasons cocoa farming is bad is because, “communities have poor education and healthcare services and lack electricity and decent sanitation, with water only available from communal wells…”
Question #2
The rights that are being violated is Human Right number 26. “The Right to Education. Education is a right. Primary school should be free. We should learn about the United Nations and how to get on with others. Our parents can choose what we learn.”

Families need the kids to  make money instead of going to school. The kids make money by working on the cocoa farms.

Another right that is being violated is “23. Workers’ Rights. Every grown-up has the right to do a job, to a fair wage for their work, and to join a trade union.”

The adults aren't doing their part by working on the cocoa farms but, if they did their part the kids could go to school and learn. One example of the effects of violating the right to education is explained in  “The Future of chocolate: Why Cocoa Production is at Risk” by stating, “Cocoa growers are typically illiterate substance farmers who grow cocoa alongside staple food crops to provide the main cash income to pay school fees, medical bills and other household necessities.”

Question #3
The negative issues are that the farmers don’t get paid that much money and have poor education because of the lack of kids going to school. We could fix it by sending some people to shut down all farm in the Ivory Coast. In “Globe News wire”     Hersey is trying to fix how the put kids to work and not letting them go to school. One example is “Hershey Company is working with Partners to equip young and Coco- growing regions with the skills and resources they need to build successful futures.”
Question #4
I was surprised because  they still put kids to work just to make money probably even knowing that if people found out of the Ivory Coast that they would probably be shut down and couldn't make any money than.
Question #5
Are the people putting kids to work know that if they got caught they could go to jail?
Question #6
Before I thought people that were making chocolate were farmer that were adults but, found out that they were adults making kids doing the work and that puts them in a place where they can’t go to school. And it's really sad that they couldn't even try the chocolate and they still didn't make a lot of money.

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I agree that kids should learn instead of working all of the time.

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To add onto Allison, (she talked about how child labor is happening in a ton of places) there are a ton of more instances than  just the cocoa farming. An example is battery mining. The children have to go into a hole that is hundreds of feet down in the ground, with no safety gear, much like the kids farming cocoa. In an article titled, "The Real Cost of Batteries" from Junior Scholastic said, "Collect cobalt is back-breaking-and like threatening work. At any moment, the mine's tunnels could have caved in..." This means that the work is extremely dangerous work, much like the kids farming cocoa beans. Overall, to add to Allison, she is right about child labor happening in a lot of places but, these are just 2 examples. There are a TON more examples.

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Question 1:
Kids have been trafficked from places across the world to work in cocoa farms. They use machetes and unsafe large tools to do their work. They also work in unsafe environments. The children work for long periods of time just doing work eating and sleeping. Monkeys have been effected because their homes have been taken.

Question 2:
Some trees would be planted so the existing endangered animals can rehabilitate. Children should be taken back to their homes and be treated for their scars and bruise.

Question 3:
Children have been the ones working in the cocoa farms because adults are more lazy. The children although they can be young are used for climbing trees and have more energy.

Question 4:
They were letting the children use machetes and different tools to work and harvest.
People actually take other peoples kids to the ivory coast to work for the cocoa farms.
The workers didn't know what chocolate was and never even had a bite. 1.8 million children combined in the Ivory coast and Ghana work in the cocoa farms.
Question 6: Child labor still exists and cocoa went back in the bad conditions and still happens. The children hold up to 10 pounds (4.54 kg) of cocoa beans across the forest.

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for the question 3# How do you think the negative issues with cocoa farming should be addressed? that U.S. Department of Labor and governments of the world’s two largest cocoa producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana. But given the size of the child labor problem, more investments are needed.

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I believe that cocoa farming is bad for the Ivory coast because of the child labor. In the article Food Empowerment Project, “Child Labor and slavery in the chocolate industry. It said “Each child has to strike the pod with a machete and pry it open with the tip of the blade to expose the cocoa beans. Each strike has the potential to slice a child's flesh. The majority of the children have scars on their hands, arms, legs or shoulders from the machetes.” This shows that cocoa farming is bad because young children have to work with dangerous equipment.
The human right that is being violated is right number 26 which is the right to education. The children are taken out of school and work on cocoa farms. In the article Food Empowerment Project, “Child Labor and slavery in the chocolate industry. It said “the children of western Africa are surrounded by intense poverty and most begin working on cocoa farms at a young age to help support their families." This shows that the human right is being violated because the children have to work on the cocoa farms instead of going to school.
This problem should be addressed by letting people know what is going on in the Ivory Coast. They should put things in the news about this and make their stories known.
Something that I found surprising is there are 1.8 million children in Africa that work on the cocoa farms in harsh conditions with very low pay.

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Cocoa farming is bad for the Ivory Coast.

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1. Do you feel cocoa is good for the Ivory Coast?

I do not think that cocoa is good for the Ivory because of…

1. Many children are forced into working for cocoa farming companies, which can be bad for their development, as they can be taken out of school. (Newsela | A hard fight to end child labor abuse on West African cocoa farms)

2. Children can be tricked by their parents, relatives, or traffickers into working at these dangerous plants (Paper article “Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry from The Food Empowerment Project”)

3. Kids (sometimes as young as 5) are forced to use tools like chainsaws and machetes, which leave permanent scars all over their bodies.  (Paper article “Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry from The Food Empowerment Project”)

However, I can see where the other side is coming from as Cocoa is an important part of the Ivory Coast’s economy.

1. What human rights are being violated by the cocoa industry and how are they violating them?  One human right being violated is Right 26: The Right to Education. Many kids do not get an education because of these jobs they are forced into.

1. How do you think the negative issues with cocoa farming should be addressed?

I think that the companies who are supposedly helping should show us action. Companies like Hersheys are claiming they are helping, but are showing no actions of theirs to prove this.

1. What did you find surprising or interesting from what you read about the cocoa industry?

I found it most interesting that many cocoa farmers have never tasted the cocoa beans (from the video we watched as a whole class)

1. What questions do you have about the cocoa industry?

2. Why would these big companies be seemingly in support of this child labor, as they clearly have lots of money?

3. Why wouldn’t any of the workers know what the cocoa beans were being used for?

1. What have you learned about this topic or from the work you did in this mini-unit?

I have learned about how cocoa farms use child labor and how companies support this, as well as the fact that Ivory Coast is the biggest supplier of cocoa beans.

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I was very suprised that the world is just now finding out that child labor that is being used to get them the chocolate they love and I would like to know if people like the government are already helping change this problem.

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I believe that cocoa farming is bad for the Ivory Coast because the cocoa farmers who are the starting point of the cocoa industry, and they only earn 10% of the total money earned from the sale of a chocolate bar. According to Kelsey Nowakowski, “The Numbers Behind Child Labor,” National Geographic, September 26, 2015,  she talks about how Cocoa farmers get the least amount percent of the money from the chocolate. They get 5% of it, while manufacturers and retailers get 35 and 40%. This means that the farmers are getting paid so little, and those chocolate companies should give the farmers more money since they have so much.

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I think that cocoa farming is a terrible thing and bad for the ivory coast for many reasons. One reason is child trafficking. This is a terrible thing and is pretty much kidnapping. Another one is child labor. This is a bad thing because the kids are working hard and long and not even getting paid. Some kids are using harmful tools such as chainsaws and machetes.

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I believe cocoa farming is bad for the Ivory coast for multiple reasons. One being that child labor is happening and the children working are trafficked. The children work with machetes and chainsaws for no pay. Many adult workers and owners don't even know what the beans make. Chocolate costs around 2 euros and the average cocoa maker makes 7 euros a day which go to workers, and maintenance. Primates like monkeys are going extinct because of illegal cocoa farms. Although cocoa does help the economy of the Ivory Coast because it is such a poor country, that doesn't excuse the fact that kids are working in such dangerous conditions. The chemicals some of the children inhale don't take affect on them for 30-40 years.

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I think that cocoa farming is bad for the Ivory Coast because of Child Labor. In the Ivory Coast, the children are forced to use dangerous weapons, putting there lives in danger and many others  lives in danger to.

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Do You Feel LIke Cocoa Is Good For Ivory Coast?

Cocoa is not good for the Ivory. The Ivory Coast is being torn and cut down to make room for illegal cocoa farms. The Ivory Coast is home to many species. The monkeys are being driven into extinction.

What Human Rights Are Being Violated By The Cocoa Industry And How Are THey Violating Them?

The cocoa industry is violating “The Right to Life. We all have the right to life, and to live in freedom and safety.”. The cocoa industry is violating this right because the kids they have working on the farm are not in a safe environment and is in danger.  Children as young as 5 yrs old are working on the farm. SOme children use chainsaws to cut down the ivory coast to make room for the cocoa farms. The other children that working the farm use machetes to hack open the cocoa pod. Each strike of the machete has a potential to slice a child's flesh because of this many children have scars.

How Do You Think The Negative Issues With Cocoa Farming Should be addressed?

All these problems should be addressed by going to each and every cocoa farms and bringing the underaged kids back to their homes and some to the hospitals because some of the scars might be infected. The place that have the have animals close to extinction should be off limits until the animals have recovered.

What Did You Find Surprising Or Interesting From What You Read ABout The Cocoa Industry?

It surprised me that it took 5-6 years to grow back the cocoa trees after they have been destroyed. It surprised me that people actually took other kids from their community to take them to another place to make them work on a cocoa farm

What Have You Learned About THis Topic Or From The Work You Did In This Mini-Unit?

I've learned that children as young as five years old are working on the cocoa farm. Children are dragging sacks that weighs more than 100 pounds full of cocoa pods throughout the forest.

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1. I think that cocoa is bad for the ivory coast because of child labor, deforestation, and little pay. a quote from the newsela article is  “An estimated 1.8 million children work on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast and Ghana combined.”

2. Some of the human rights being broken are that the kids that are working and being trafficked are not aloud to go to school. Another one is slavery. Lots of the children working on the farm are being forced to work there under dangerous conditions with no pay.
3. I think that one way a negative problem with the cocoa industry should be addressed it for child labor and I think the chocolate companies should pay more money to try and stop it. I think that if the chocolate company put in more money to try and catch the traffickers and the kids then there would be a lot less child labor. I also think that the company should pay the workers more, so that they can have a better life and supports their family's better.
4.I think that it was surprising that there is so much child labor. I thought that the chocolate company would try harder to stop it and try to eliminate it more because it could make them look bad and then other people might not buy there products. I what also surprised me was that there is a lot of deforestation. I thought that since they would need more trees for more cocoa beans that they would plant more trees, not decrease the amount of trees.
5. Some questions that I have are how often are children being trafficked and is it just a day job for them or are they kept there and forced to work.

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I think cocoa farming is bad for the Ivory Coast because of child labor, poverty, dangerous and low page jobs.
There are many human rights that are being violated. Numbers 4, 5, 24, 25, and 26 are all being violated. As they are slavery, torture, play, food and shelter, and then education.  People are violating them by using kids for work, having people work without food or shelter, not having breaks or time for the kids to play, and the kids don't get to have an education because they are working all of the time. There are many ways this problem could be addressed. Many other chocolate companies have been saying that they are going to fix this even though they haven't. In the Globe Newswire with Hershey says, “...including half-a-billion-dollar commitment by 2030.” Hershey is also saying that they have been working with companies for over 100 years but we still have to wait 11 more years for this problem to be fixed. What was surprising for me was how many kids are actually working on the farms. Newsela says, “Millions of children continue to work on cocoa farms, some in unsafe conditions.” It is weird to think that while I am learning and having fun, that other kids are busy working on cocoa fields. But why are all of these bad things happening? Why have companies been saying they are going to fix this but haven't? I have learned that no matter how much I like chocolate, that it is nothing compared to how bad this situation is. People do not need chocolate to survive and if no more chocolate means a better world in many countries? Then I am in.

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Is Cocoa Farming good or bad for the Ivory Coast?
I think that cocoa farming is bad for the Ivory coast because of things like deforestation and unsafe environments.

Human Rights that are being violated: Definitively #23 and 26 and #3 and 4 also apply in a way.

Things that I found surprising and interesting:
- 38% of the worlds cocoa is from the Ivory Coast.
- Between 2002 and 2011 cocoa production dropped about  270,000.
- It takes three to five years for new cocoa trees to produce pods of cocoa.

Things I learned:
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1. Do you feel cocoa is good for the Ivory Coast?

No cocoa farming is bad for the Ivory Coast because the people haven’t tried their own products that they have been growing forever.

2.  What human rights are being violated by the cocoa industry and how are they violating them?

According to the BBC video chocolate the bitter side the Ivory Coast doesn't show a lot of human right 28 A Fair and Free World. There must be proper order so we can all enjoy rights and freedoms in our own country and the people in the ivory coast don’t let the kids go to school, making them use very dangerous and hazards tools for cocoa farming.

3. How do you think the negative issues with cocoa farming should be addressed?

Yes According to the BBC video chocolate the bitter side kids that this young of an age should be working with tool that will has a high chance themselves but using the very dangerous tools and the way they can fix this problem is but letting the adults or kids at the age of adulthood use they very dangerous too because they will now how to take care of themselves and be safe handling this big heavy hazardous tools.

4. What did you find surprising or interesting from what you read about the cocoa industry?

According to the Newsela article It's a hard fight to end child labor abuse on West Africa’s cocoa farms. That cocoa industries are committing $10 Million to fix the problem that they haven’t ever fix it yet.

5. What questions do you have about the cocoa industry? Why haven’t the cocoa industries fix this child labor problems in the ivory coast yet.

6. What have you learned about this topic or from the work you did in this mini-unit?  1 thing i didn’t  know about that i know that that there was still acts of child labor and child trafficking in a place where the chocolate that everybody in the whole world loves was at the hands of  children work to make money for there family and keeping them alive.

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Do you feel cocoa is good for the Ivory Coast?
My opinions on cocoa farming on Ivory Coast are it is not good and I don’t know why people are okay with this still going on. For little pay, child labor and long cruel hours, it is not good and not worth it

What human rights are being violated?
Human right #3 the right to life “We all have the right to life, and live in freedom and safety. This is getting broken because many kids that work for the cocoa farms are put in very dangerous situations like working with heavy and sharp machetes and having to carry twice their weight on their back. From the article “Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry.”  the article states “Other children climb the cocoa trees to cut bean pods using a machete...the children pack the pods into sacks that weigh more than 100 pounds when full...every strike of the machete has the potential to slice a child’s flesh. The majority of children have scars on their hands, arms, legs or shoulders from the machetes.

Another human right that is getting broken is Human right #20 this is the right to public assembly “We all have the right to meet our friends and work together in peace to defend our rights. Nobody can make us join a group if we don't want to.” How this right is getting broken is because many kids in the industry don’t have a say on if they want to become a cocoa farming because many of them have to provide for their family but they don’t get a choice if they do or not.

How do you think the negative issues with cocoa farming should be addressed?
How I think the negative side of cocoa farming should be addressed is we should know what is really going on and what we can do to stop it, now since we are only twelve or thirteen there is not much we can do but now we know every time we bite into the sweet taste of chocolate that child labor is still happening today. In the Ivory Coast, people who are conducting these farms should educate the people who work for them and tell kids that they do not have to go if they do not want to or feel safe with using heavy and dangerous materials.

How do you think the negative issues with cocoa farming should be addressed?
How I think the negative side of cocoa farming should be addressed is we should know what is really going on and what we can do to stop it, now since we are only twelve or thirteen there is not much we can do but now we know every time we bite into the sweet taste of chocolate that child labor is still happening today. In the Ivory Coast, people who are conducting these farms should educate the people who work for them and tell kids that they do not have to go if they do not want to or feel safe with using heavy and dangerous materials.

What did you find surprising or interesting from what you read about the cocoa industry?
One of the most interesting things I have learned would be that cocoa farmers don’t know what Chocolate tastes like or the facts of the chocolate even though they work to make chocolate. Why this is interesting is because they work to make chocolate so I just find it surprising that they don’t even know what they are working for (Video). Another thing that surprised me was that monkeys are becoming extinct on the Ivory Coast according to the article “Is Chocolate Driving Monkeys into Extinction?” “All told, more than 74 percent of the supposedly protected forests the researchers surveyed had been taken over by cocoa farms.” this is interesting to me because not only is cocoa farming is bad for environment and the forests but we are losing a lot of species like monkeys.

What questions do you have about the cocoa industry?
How much the cocoa farmers are earning?
What age are you to be if you are a cocoa farming kid?
What do the adult workers think about working on the farm?

What have you learned about this topic or from the work you did in this mini-unit?
I learned that there are a lot more facts about chocolate that I didn't know like I didn't know about child labor and how unfair the cocoa industry is.

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1.) I believe that cocoa farming is not good for the ivory coast.

Because, of the child labor and being forced to work in dangerous conditions and being taken away from where they live to work unfairly.
2.) The human rights that i see and learned that’s being violated for the ivory coast are: 3,30,4 and That is the right to live in freedom and safety. And to not take away your rights.
4.) That the people who got the cocoa seeds never knew what they were for. And that its estimated that 1.8 million children work on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast and Ghana combined.
5.) Why wouldn't the companies that get cocoa from them not say what its for.
6.) How the ivory coast is suffering with cocoa farming and what chocolate really has an impact on cocoa and is destroying the tropical forests.