Children in Ghana, some as young as 5, are working cocoa fields and wielding machetes instead of attending school.
  • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    What if we keep eating slave chocolate, but we make the slave owners buy “freedom cocoa” credits from places where cocoa is being farmed ethically already?

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Then we’ll be prolonging unnecessary child slavery and abuse.

      They’re slave owners, their profit margin is pretty wide and their industry standards are not very strict, as you might imagine.

      The most effective way to end trafficking/slavery linked to chocolate is to stop buying slave chocolate.