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Please consider this when you buy chocolate and feel free to cross post in other forums root/tlr I don't' post there /
 
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Nestle also buys out the water tables of vulnerable people for pennies on the dollar to make it's Billion dollar bottled water business function, leaving people trapped with the inability to afford or have access to the basic human right of water.

And yes, Water is a human right, you need it to live.

Megacorporations are monstrous and evil, there's none that abide by any semblance of virtue and doesn't exploit people for it's own ends.
 
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killacal said:
They were promising to use fair trade chocolate back then :gucci:
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Yup. I never eat chocolate but will do more to avoid these companies.

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These farms form the world’s most important source of cocoa and are the setting for an epidemic of child labor that the world’s largest chocolate companies promised to eradicate nearly 20 years ago.

The world’s chocolate companies have missed deadlines to uproot child labor from their cocoa supply chains in 2005, 2008 and 2010. Next year, they face another target date and, industry officials indicate, they probably will miss that, too.

As a result, the odds are substantial that a chocolate bar bought in the United States is the product of child labor.

About two-thirds of the world’s cocoa supply comes from West Africa where, according to a 2015 U.S. Labor Department report, more than 2 million children were engaged in dangerous labor in cocoa-growing regions.
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BoBurnz said:
Nestle also buys out the water tables of vulnerable people for pennies on the dollar to make it's Billion dollar bottled water business function, leaving people trapped with the inability to afford or have access to the basic human right of water.

And yes, Water is a human right, you need it to live.

Megacorporations are monstrous and evil, there's none that abide by any semblance of virtue and doesn't exploit people for it's own ends.
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You're right. Nestle is a horrible company. Their CEO sounds like a sociopath when i see quotes from him. He would privatize all drinkable water if he could.
 
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Look man...both sides are to blame. The companies turn a blind eye and the suppliers in CIV/Ghana/Nigeria etc supply cocoa with any labour they get. Child or no child.

To add: Obviously companies like Nestle and co like the prices they are getting now. Do you think if African countries reformed and became like the west that all these deals would be getting cut at fire sale prices.

A well functioning DRC means the prices of cobalt, uranium, coltan etc will shoot through the roof. Western society can't really handle that. It'd eat into the margins of their businesses. Someone always profits in chaos.
 
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phcitywarrior said:
Look man...both sides are to blame. The companies turn a blind eye and the suppliers in CIV/Ghana/Nigeria etc supply cocoa with any labour they get. Child or no child.

To add: Obviously companies like Nestle and co like the prices they are getting now. Do you think if African countries reformed and became like the west that all these deals would be getting cut at fire sale prices.

A well functioning DRC means the prices of cobalt, uranium, gold etc will shoot through the roof. Western society can't really handle that. It'd eat into the margins of their businesses. Someone always profits in chaos.
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phcitywarrior said:
Look man...both sides are to blame. The companies turn a blind eye and the suppliers in CIV/Ghana/Nigeria etc supply cocoa with any labour they get. Child or no child.

To add: Obviously companies like Nestle and co like the prices they are getting now. Do you think if African countries reformed and became like the west that all these deals would be getting cut at fire sale prices.

A well functioning DRC means the prices of cobalt, uranium, coltan etc will shoot through the roof. Western society can't really handle that. It'd eat into the margins of their businesses. Someone always profits in chaos.
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Well that's the rub of it.

Colonialism never ended. The world will never allow Africa to be free for it's own destiny as long as it's constituted the way it is. The continent is too resource rich to not exploit in the name of capital.
 
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phcitywarrior said:
Look man...both sides are to blame. The companies turn a blind eye and the suppliers in CIV/Ghana/Nigeria etc supply cocoa with any labour they get. Child or no child.

To add: Obviously companies like Nestle and co like the prices they are getting now. Do you think if African countries reformed and became like the west that all these deals would be getting cut at fire sale prices.

A well functioning DRC means the prices of cobalt, uranium, coltan etc will shoot through the roof. Western society can't really handle that. It'd eat into the margins of their businesses. Someone always profits in chaos.
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child labor and modern day slavery isn't a lot to ask for I feel like, I understand what you're saying obviously and why
 
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