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BY: Brij Kishore Bansal Sandeep Maharana P M Jayakrishnan Ipsita Pahadi Sneha kumari Pallavi Agrawal
Half of worlds chocolate comes from slave children- who are kidnapped and made to work but hook or by crook In 2000 Human right report said 15000 children are sold to Ivory coast farmers In 2001 Chocolate manufacturer association(CMA) confessed about their knowledge of slavery existing in the industry. CMA was signed an agreement A certification was also made however it didnt work
Ivory coasts and Ghana, West Africa. Boys (09-16 yrs) are kidnapped and sold to cocoa farmers. Methods of making them work: whippings, beatings, starvation; clearing the fields, harvesting beans and drying them in the sun. Made to work for at least 12 hours a day, and locked in at night in windowless rooms, to sleep on wooden planks. Every year lots of boys die or are killed here.
Who is responsible?
A $13 billion industry Hershey, Mars, Nestle, Kraft Foods Middlemen like Archer Daniels, Midland Co., Barry Callebaut, Cargill Inc. buys cocoa beans from farmers. African Government do not control over the rules.
Chocolate Manufacturers Association signed Protocol for the growing & processing of Cocoa beans and their Derivative Products in a manner that Complies with ILO Convention 182 Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worse Forms of Child Labor. Chocolate Manufacturers Association & World Cocoa Foundation signed a MOC. Certification to verify beans not harvested by slave labor.
Questions
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What are the systemic , corporate and individual ethical issues raised by this case? Is your view, is the kind of child slavery discussed in this case absolutely wrong no matter what, or is it only relatively wrong, i.e if one happens to live in a society (like ours) that disapproves of slavery?
3. Who shares the moral responsibility for the slavery occurring in the chocolate industry: African farmers? African governments? American chocolate companies? Distributors? Consumers like you and I who know about the situation but continue to purchase tainted chocolate?