Chocolate is a product of the cacao bean which grows primarily in the tropical climates of West Africa and Latin America. The cacao bean is more commonly referred to as cocoa, so that is the term we will use throughout. Two West African countries, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, supply 75% of the world’s cocoa market.[1] The cocoa they grow and harvest is sold to a variety of chocolate companies, including some of the largest in the world. In recent years, a handful of organizations and journalists
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“The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing…the bottom line. That is, maximizing profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.” —David Suzuki Bottling of freshwater from a rare resource in the Fiji Islands, and harvesting of cocoa beans via child slave labor in West Africa, are both ethically
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Worldwide Consumption The Top Chocolate Loving Nations are (lbs/yr): 1. Switzerland 22.36 2. Austria 20.13 3. Ireland 19.47 4. Germany 18.04 5. Norway 17.93 Chocolate Consumption Distribution Worldwide Not all countries are able to enjoy the sweet taste of chocolate equally. There is a profound dichotomy between those nations that extract the raw materials and those who indulge in the finished product. As it is shown in the maps available, all but one of the top twenty
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Is Chocolate Good For Côte d’Ivoire? When thinking of chocolate foods like candy bars, cookies, cakes and other sweets, most people think of the sugary, savory taste that this delicious treat has. Most people in America would consume these kinds of things by getting a chocolate foodstuffs by purchasing it as a pre-made dessert, or ground up cocoa from a supermarket. For you, it’s easy to obtain chocolate products and most don’t think much of it. Have you ever considered where or how cocoa has been
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important for the study of ehics in the workplace? Slavery in the Chocolate Industry: The Ivory Coast in Africa produces much of the world’s cocoa beans, but in order to do so cheaply, thousands of cocoa farms use child slavery. Many large American chocolate companies knowingly purchase these tainted cocoa beans, also in order to keep costs low. The stakeholders in this case study are child slaves, the farmers, the distributors, and the chocolate manufacturing corporations and the consumers. The
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Case Study: Corporate responsibility in different eras: “Cadbury” 1. a) Did the company overreact by stopping its sourcing of ´slave-produced´ cocoa? Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought ad soled, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will to refuse to work. Letting people work on a cocoa plant against their will – treating them like animals – might benefit the values of the company without carrying about the wellbeing of the slaves
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The Hershey Company and CSR Challenge The Hershey Company is the leading North American manufacturer of chocolate confectionery (The Hershey, 2014). The company uses cocoa suppliers in West Africa, where the harvest type of child labour and human trafficking is exposed in the chocolate industry. Thousands of children are forced to engage in unsafe activities such as using machetes and carrying heavy loads. Therefore, the majorities have scars on their body (Nieburg O., 2014). Nearly two million
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for sourcing it chocolate from the West African countries like the Ivory Coast where the cocoa trade is being used to fund conflict to the tune of £60 million a year. The Ivory Coast provides some 40% of the world’s cocoa, since 2002 it has been torn apart by civil war. The allegations are that the profit from cocoa has been directly siphoned into government funds and used to finance their conflict with the rebels. In addition the rebels extorted money directly from the industry trying to transport
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Child labour Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful.[3] This practice is considered exploitative by many international organisations. Legislations across the world prohibit child labour.[4][5] These laws do not consider all work by children as child labour; exceptions include work by child artists, supervised
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America today. (10 Shocking...) A large portion of these cases go unnoticed by officials. There are slaves in American industries, the question is if we are going to do something about it. We have the opportunity to set captives free, let us take the chance, become informed, and inform others. This issue can’t go unnoticed any longer. Many of the slaves supporting American industry and business are the ones who make out every day products. Why are Wal-Mart’s prices better? And Costco’s items cheaper
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