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[–] [email protected] 151 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Chocolate production is infested with slave labor, child labor and child slave labor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHMDjc7qJ8

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i don't think this is a secret anymore though

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I used to think that at least the parts that are Fairtrade wouldn’t be affected as much.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So is banana production. And here I am with a bowl of banana-topped chocolate ice cream. Dammit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Chunky Monkey by any means necessary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So what are you gonna do to stop it? 🍫🍌

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I alone cannot stop it if that's what you mean. In fact, often the reverse course of action seems the best. But I try to think forwardly and would stand up for what's right even when I'm alone in doing so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Not trying to be offensive, but could you provide examples of your second point? πŸ˜‰β˜πŸ»

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The part about me standing up for what's right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Hehehe. That's just plain mean.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaken NestlΓ©, the firm that makes various brands of chocolate, are known or at least have been known to include slavery in really poor parts of the world.

When I look at a bottle or a cuddly packaged bit of chocolate, I shudder to think the shit conditions that a person, a child even was forced or on crap pay to produce that from the cocoa farming..

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ne*tle also does this thing where they lie to mothers in 'third-world countries' (I hate that term but can't think of a better one rn) by telling them that their baby formula is better than actual milk, then give them some, which the mothers mix with dirty water, and when they can't afford the formula, they'll just give the babies plain dirty water.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

An important part of that process that needs mentioning is that when the mothers are convinced by Nestle to feed their babies formula instead of their breast milk, their bodies will stop producing the milk before the baby is weaned from it.

So Nestle literally endangers babies' lives just to sell more baby formula.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's an important addition!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Nestle also fucks up entire cities water supplies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Glad i basically dont eat the stuff ever.