Unsavory Ingredient: Sweet, Beloved Chocolate a Product of Child.... / Sudarsan Raghavan and Sumana Chatterjee.
by Raghavan, Sudarsan; Chatterjee, Sumana; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 52Human Relations. Publisher: Knight-Ridder, 2001ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Agricultural laborers | Child labor -- Africa | Child slaves | Chocolate | Cocoa trade | Slavery -- Africa | Cote d'Ivoire | MaliDDC classification: 050 Summary: SWEET, BELOVED CHOCOLATE A PRODUCT OF CHILD SLAVERY -- "Forty-three percent of the world's cocoa beans, the raw material in chocolate, come from small, scattered farms in this poor West African country. And on some of the farms, the hot, hard work of clearing the fields and harvesting the crop is done by boys who were sold or tricked into slavery." (MIAMI HERALD) This article probes into the problem of child slave labor in the Ivory Coast, where many boys work to harvest cocoa beans, the nation's primary export.Summary: UNSAVORY INGREDIENT: CHILDREN SEEKING BETTER LIFE TRICKED INTO SLAVERY -- "Nearly half of the world's cocoa beans come from Ivory Coast farms, some of which use boys who were sold or tricked into slavery to raise crops." (MIAMI HERALD) This article explains how cultural traditions and the lure of money cause many boys to leave home in search of work, often becoming trapped laboring on cocoa farms.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Unsavory Ingredient: Sweet, Beloved Chocolate a Product of Child..., June 24, 2001; pp. 1A+.
Originally Published: Unsavory Ingredient: Children Seeking Better Life Tricked into Slavery, June 25, 2001; pp. 1A+.
SWEET, BELOVED CHOCOLATE A PRODUCT OF CHILD SLAVERY -- "Forty-three percent of the world's cocoa beans, the raw material in chocolate, come from small, scattered farms in this poor West African country. And on some of the farms, the hot, hard work of clearing the fields and harvesting the crop is done by boys who were sold or tricked into slavery." (MIAMI HERALD) This article probes into the problem of child slave labor in the Ivory Coast, where many boys work to harvest cocoa beans, the nation's primary export.
UNSAVORY INGREDIENT: CHILDREN SEEKING BETTER LIFE TRICKED INTO SLAVERY -- "Nearly half of the world's cocoa beans come from Ivory Coast farms, some of which use boys who were sold or tricked into slavery to raise crops." (MIAMI HERALD) This article explains how cultural traditions and the lure of money cause many boys to leave home in search of work, often becoming trapped laboring on cocoa farms.
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