Remake of Raising the Bar: The Complicated Consumption of Chocolate by https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee Ellen E. Moore, Food For Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture en-us 2018-10-25 13:54:50 UTC 2025-09-26 11:08:35 UTC hello@padlet.com Unequal sharing of labor in food production https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296994568 2018-10-25 15:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296994568 Summary https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296994647 The section of the text explains the divide between those who sell/consume the food and those who produce the food. "...The effort made by the chocolate companies to hide the realities of chocolate production from the consumer." ]]> 2018-10-25 15:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296994647 Chocolate Production https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296994788 "Europeans use slave labor to produce chocolate using intricate and lengthy harvesting..." (75)]]> 2018-10-25 15:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296994788 General trend of chocolate companies utilizing foreign labor, often treated poorly https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296994871 2018-10-25 15:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296994871 I. The Chocolate Consumer as a Pleasure Seeker https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296994955 - Focused on what each gender would like through chocolate consumption]]> 2018-10-25 15:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296994955 II. Chocolate as a Gendered Product https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296995487 2018-10-25 15:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296995487 https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296995534 The methods by which major chocolate corporations advertise their products reinforce the racist, imperialist myths of happy, well-cared-for, exotic Africans that produce the chocolate and hide the reality of slavery and hyper-exploitation of its workers.]]> 2018-10-25 15:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296995534 The diversity between "expensive" and regular chocolate https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296995646 2018-10-25 15:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296995646 III. Ethnic and National Identity: Whiteness and Consumption https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296995789 2018-10-25 15:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296995789 IV. Using the Exotic as "Other" https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296995953 2018-10-25 15:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296995953 Summary https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296996036 2018-10-25 15:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296996036 "Chocolate, a product that is almost wholly grown and harvested overseas for consumption in the U.S. and Europe, is uniquely situated to address a variety of issues including the seperation between production and consumption, representation, the articulation of identities through consumption, and the phenomenon of neo-colonialism in which former colonies and"developing" nations remain economically bound to capitalist systems in North America and Europe." https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296996376 2018-10-25 15:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296996376 Chocolate Production https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296996608 "Since its creation from the cacao bean by groups in Central America over 2,000 years ago, chocolate has been a product that has used force labor..." (74)]]> 2018-10-25 15:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296996608 https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296997429 Chocolate consumption was a sign of privilege 

]]> 2018-10-25 15:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296997429 https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296997708 "A product that has used forced labor for consumption by the elite]]> 2018-10-25 15:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296997708 https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296997980 The slave labors harmful from the pesticides and children are being a part of the labor. (76)]]> 2018-10-25 15:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296997980 Workers do not get to taste their own produce https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296998034 2018-10-25 15:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296998034 Advertising of chocolate displays the theme of being "exotic" https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296998301 2018-10-25 15:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ctippen1/h6x2tlht9nee/wish/296998301