https://padlet.com/mcalabrese23/k588ps3tusul How does the global desire for cheap chocolate impact the lives of the children working? en-us 2018-01-11 13:25:30 UTC 2026-01-14 09:03:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Babyhead.png mcalabrese23 https://padlet.com/mcalabrese23/k588ps3tusul/wish/220565851 http://sks.sirs.com/webapp/article?artno=0000378521&type=ART
1.people are trying to stop child labor as soon as it pops up 
2. Many children work with there family on the coca farms 


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1. Much over half the world's chocolate the world has devoured has been picked in western African countries Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.

2.child labor has an effect on kids who need education. It keeps them from getting a better education
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1. Children are often beat when they drop heavy bags of Cacao beans that they drop while working in Western Africa.
2. There are around 300,000 children that are forced to work in the Ivory Coast, 6,000 of which are slaves.
3. Big chocolate companies only pay farmers $30 to $100 a year and the farmers children/workers can work up to 12 hours a day.
4. 1.8 million children work in Cote d Ivoire and Ghana, less than 10% are paid.
5. Multiple organizations are taking this to federal court in an attempt to stop child labor.
6. African Families work their children so they can eat, but getting the children out of the cycle of working and focusing on education can feed them aswell.
7. Children that are involved in child slave labor are often beat during/before/after work. They are chained up and beat by fists to belts sometimes. This leaves hundreds of scars on the children.
8. Children can often suffer from mental diseases like PTSD after child labor
9. Children often have to work or else they might starve or a sibling might die due to lack of medication.
10. Children who participate in child labor, either voluntary or involuntary, suffer from a lack of education.
11. Children are often forced to work from dawn until dusk, or longer. If they stop, they get beat
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12. Children can get harmed on the job. For example, 31,509 children got injured in 1988.
13. Children can get sick by getting cut by dirty blades or a virus going through the workplace.
14. Children can grow to become underweight and short adults by working at an early age.
15. Children can suffer from traumatic injury.
16. Children can get intoxicated by pesticides.
17. Children can suffer from these health effects if they have to work like a regular adult.
18. Child Labor can interfere with school activities or even going to school at all.
19. Child Labor is a violation of human rights.
20. Children can also suffer from permanent injury.
21. Child workers can suffer from malnutrition if they live at the place of which the work.
22. Children can be forced to share an abandoned house or share an outhouse at a camp, an outhouse that isn't cleaned.
23. Infants that are born into labor can suffer falls or injuries that can permanently disable communication or other tools.
24. Housing is poor for child workers.
25. Child workers can get attacked by animals while working.
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26. Hershey was one of the last companies to stop buying from child laborers.
27. Most child labor involving chocolate takes place in Cote d'Ivoire.
28.Children can be physically abused, mentally abused, and molested by their laborers.
29. Children that work in sweatshop conditions can be forced to work with injuries like broken bones.
30. If child labor isn't monitored it can end up with severe consequences.
31. Forced Child Labor can often occur in poor parts of countries like India or Mexico, and some also takes place in African countries.
32. Child Labor occurs most in poor countries.
33. Child Labor that occurs in more wealthy areas of a country are often hidden in an ordinary house and the children working are paid minimum wage.
34. Kids that work sometimes work only because their parents don't support them very much.
35. Non-forced child labor often consists of kids asking for what they want and sometimes getting it, whilst forced labor consists of kids only thinking about what they want, since if they request it they might get beat.
36. Organizations like Fair Trade only cover the safe parts of countries, the dangerous parts aren't covered.
37. Countries that support child labor supply 43% of chocolate in the U.S
38. Most people don't realize that they're buying chocolate harvested by slaves.
39. Companies are hiring Third-Party monitors to ensure they don't buy from child laborers.
40. Even with laws making child labor illegal, it still is present in communities involved in illegal activities.


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3. the lovable harry potter chocolate frog is a horrible sign of child labor
4.  children are abused one teen said  "Our master used us as slaves. He took us there and never paid us a penny."
5. once the story got out the government passed around a treaty to consumers, chocolate industry, and labor unions saying  they were trying to eliminate child labor and slavery
 ]]> 2018-01-16 15:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mcalabrese23/k588ps3tusul/wish/221748320 rgoff23 https://padlet.com/mcalabrese23/k588ps3tusul/wish/221748822 "The book of chocolate. the amazing story of the world's favorite candy."
HP Newquist

3. More than 70 percent of the world's cocoa beans come from west Africa. 

4.African plantation owners will do anything to make sure they get as much  money from their cocoa as they can--even if they have to break the law to do it. 

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6. chocolate companies claim to not know that the coco farmer enslave children 
7.  government is concerned about the child slave   
8. there are two human rights movement that are focused on child labor ]]> 2018-01-17 18:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mcalabrese23/k588ps3tusul/wish/222190834 rgoff23 https://padlet.com/mcalabrese23/k588ps3tusul/wish/222199502 http://sks.sirs.com/webapp/article?artno=0000142551&type=ART

5. "We need to be  permanently concerned with where cocoa comes from, the impact of cocoa on the environment and how the workers are treated" -Larry Graham 

6. bales is working with CMA and international Labor Organization  to monitor  agreement goals

]]> 2018-01-17 19:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mcalabrese23/k588ps3tusul/wish/222199502 bstewart23 https://padlet.com/mcalabrese23/k588ps3tusul/wish/222201349 1.there is a lawsuit against Hershey mars and nestle for false advertising that they use child labor 
2.if we buy these chocolates where supporting child labor 
3.americas bigest and most profitabled food componeys should not supprot child labor most kids who are child labored for chocalte dont know what it taste like.
4. there are children as young as 5 involved with child labor 
5.when u didnt hurry back from getting cocoa u would get beat 
6.poverty is a root cause of child labor 
7.approx 168 million children are engaged in child labor globally
8.children are most susceptible to child labor in times of disasters and conflicts 
9.fair trade is a way to purchase products that without using child labor 
10.child labor has doubled in the last decade in some country's
11.consumers have no way of knowing if the stuff they buy is made by child labor 
12.children miss out on education and child hood and risk there heath and even death 
13.child labor is increasing in Syria 
14. child labor is stopping kids from going to school 
15.these kids work up to 12 hours a day
16.217.7 million children around ages 5 to 17 are evolved in child labor  around the world 
17.these kids get beaten by there supervisors with belts and other things while there tied down
18.right now there are more child laborers in the cocoa business then ever before 
19.Nestle seems to be taking the lead in fighting child labor 
20.children work for low pay and are abused 
21.these children are working in dangerous environments and deadly conditions 
22. in east Africa they found the that child labor was caused by the families for income 
23.working conditions where unhealthy and small income 
24.countries have passed laws to fix abuses of child labor  
25.some countries have new laws that require kids to go to school 
26.most state laws have a minimum age for younger workers such as teenagers 
27.the minimum wage for agriculture is 12 and can work any amount of hours
28.child workers are often deprived the change to go to school
29.some countries boys under the age of 12 can only work 60 hours a week
30.some places have a minimum age of 13 to 15 
31.child labor violates human rights
32.the number of active child labor workers has declined 
33.child labor violates minimum wage law  
34.kids also worked on family farms
35.children deal with wet dark and dirty conditions and get paid nearly no money at all
36.once people started noticing child labor a movement to better regulate child labor got under way 
37.there was no national child labor law until 1938 when congress finally passed fair labor standard act the act made 16 the minimum age for working 
38.in between 1802 and 1978 a series of new laws where enacted such as shorting child labor working hours
39.children have worked one way or another throughout american history 
40.children often helped adults foraging for food

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]]> 2018-01-17 19:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mcalabrese23/k588ps3tusul/wish/222208803 mcalabrese23 https://padlet.com/mcalabrese23/k588ps3tusul/wish/222829799 9. chocolate is getting harder to find and getting more expensive
10. mar chocolate sent out a warning saying that if people eat to much chocolate there wont be enough to go around 

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7.  the chocolate trust was released in june 

8. Mars, Nestle, and Hershey trick us into saying its "all natural" but in reality they are using child labor.

9. Africa is home to 2/3 of the world's cocoa beans

10.  there are kids, even five years of age working for mars, Hershey's,  and 

11. Some child slaves are sold with less than $30

12. Nestle Called the lawsuit "without merit"

13.  Daily Beast thinks that they (daily beast) doubt that Nestle is taking this very seriously

14. child and slave labor have been a part of Nestle, Mars, and Hershey's chocolate processing

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11. people are eating more chocolate that the cocoa farmers can make and they are running low 
12. by 2020 1.1 MILLION POUND OF COCOA will be produced
13.the demand for chocolate  is grater then the supplies  
14. chocolate is grown in poor countries on family farms
15. harvesting cocoa is a VERY slow process
16. one cocoa tree produces only 70 pod a year  
17. many people rely on slaves or child labor 
18. the global chocolate industry is down 
19. people are putting chocolate on everything so there using more so the demand is getting higher and higher 
20. the chocolate industry has made 110 BILLION $ on chocolate 

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15. the chocolate industry is among the most advanced in the world

16. estimated 2 million children working with their families on cocoa farms in Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire

17.  The number of children not attending school in cocoa farming communities has fallen by 87.5 percent over the past five years

18. less than 5 percent of farmers are being actively monitored for harmful child labor

19.  By the time the cocoa beans become a candy bar or a bag of chocolate chips, the farmers who made them will have generally been paid just 3.5 to 6% t of the product's final value

20. Many children traditionally work with their families on cocoa farms.

21. 42 percent of children are  in cocoa farming families( in Africa)

22. "Children have always worked on our farms," says Frank Ofori, which means that people are not ashamed to say they have children working. 

23. Children's work is largely confined to weekends

24. Peoples first response was outrage and denial

25. Child labor can be in the US too, not just Africa.

26. you can tell who the trafficked children were before anyone told you.

27. Most children from child labor look looked tired, and dirty.

28.   Most Child workers are too poor to have ever bought a chocolate bar. 

29. Many, don't even know what chocolate is.

30.  Cote D'Ivoire is the world's largest source of cocoa.

31. Hershey's plan is to eliminate child labor / workers by the year 2020 on the farms they purchase from.

32. people have been promoting child trafficking for a long time, but it was always being overlooked

33. in 2005, Ghana passed a comprehensive bill where there would be no more child trafficking 

34.Cote d'Ivoire followed in 2010 with a bill that barred child trafficking.

35. In recent years, West African governments, chocolate companies, and farmers seem to have taken heed, turning their anti-child labor efforts toward making cocoa-farming villages better places to be for children.

36. Sometimes kids need the money for their familes to eat

37. Some parents rely on their kids to earn them money for them to eat.

38. While kids are making money in the trafficking buisness, they don't realize that they will make more money after they leave school.

39. The number of children not attending school in cocoa-growing communities across Ghana has fallen by 87.5 percent over the past five years.

40!!!!!!!! Earlier this year, Cote d'Ivoire took an important new step when it passed a law mandating primary school attendance for the first time.]]> 2018-01-22 19:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcalabrese23/k588ps3tusul/wish/223512078 mcalabrese23 https://padlet.com/mcalabrese23/k588ps3tusul/wish/223514151 http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000369796
21. chocolate is the most wanted food in the world 
22. chocolate is going into a shortage EVERYWHERE
23. since chocolate is so cheap it is more demanded than other treats
24. cocoa is produced in countries like Africa and north america 
25. children are not getting payed for all the hours they spend in the sun 
26. Hershey and nasal want to end child labor 
27. almost 70% of chocolate is produced by family owned farmed
28. people are saying wealthy companies have the power to end child labor  
29.chocolate takes a while to produce 


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30. child labor is putting kids to work with a salary lower then minimum wage 
31. child labor is haderus to the children
32. child labor is completely unacceptable and needs to be eliminated 
33. in 1989 child labor became big issue
34. ILO conducted a study on child labor in 2000
35. people think america has nothing to do with child labor but we contribute to it to
36. americans are also connected to global child labor 
37.about 70% of child labor
38. 246 million children suffer from child labor 
39. child labor existed in America 
40!! child labor in the us is in texas and california
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