Funding Hershey, Nestlé, Mars funds harsh, exploitative child labor violations.
Plus we’re having a hard time believing Hersey, Nestlé, Mars, with #TaxCutsAndJobsAct (more profits for companies), couldn’t bring in adult labor from surrounding areas, with fair pay incentives, instead of exploiting children for profit.
Mars, Hershey and Nestlé now have so much more profits because of #TaxCutsAndJobsAct, the company could have flown in folks from one of the poorest US-states, Kentucky, with the highest welfare use in nation (Owsley County, 99% white, 95% GOP) since #MoscowMitch first became US Senator! And Mitch McConnell’s wife is a former Labor Secretary, who could have assisted instead of simply enriching herself at expense and exploitation of others.
All sarcasm aside, child exploitation and child labor is inexcusable, given there are countless humane options.
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Mars, Nestlé and Hershey pledged nearly two decades ago to stop using cocoa harvested by children. Yet much of the chocolate you buy still starts with child labor.
GUIGLO, Ivory Coast — Five boys are swinging machetes on a cocoa farm, slowly advancing against a wall of brush. Their expressions are deadpan, almost vacant, and they rarely talk. The only sounds in the still air are the whoosh of blades slicing through tall grass and metallic pings when they hit something harder.
Each of the boys crossed the border months or years ago from the impoverished West African nation of Burkina Faso, taking a bus away from home and parents to Ivory Coast, where hundreds of thousands of small farms have been carved out of the forest. Read More…
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