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Taste for chocolate is gone (Some African cocoa farms use child slaves)
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 10/24/05 | DAVID SMITH

Posted on 10/25/2005 12:44:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 10/25/2005 12:44:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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"estimated 26.9 million other slaves"

Is this credible?


2 posted on 10/25/2005 12:49:14 AM PDT by dsc
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I hear the French are in charge over there...


3 posted on 10/25/2005 12:54:49 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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I have no idea for a fact, but I would have guessed a lot higher.


4 posted on 10/25/2005 12:57:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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But I have a nightmare that this Halloween one of my daughters is going to pull a piece of chocolate out of her candy bag and ask, "Daddy, is it true that child slaves made this chocolate?"

No, honey...we only buy chocolate made by adult slaves!

5 posted on 10/25/2005 1:00:30 AM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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Damn, but thanks for posting this.


6 posted on 10/25/2005 1:04:50 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Prime Choice

What about geriatric-slave chololate? It's an untapped market.


7 posted on 10/25/2005 1:05:14 AM PDT by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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What about geriatric-slave chololate? It's an untapped market.

And let us not forget the young adult slave market. We could bundle it with mud wrestling and bum fights and make double on our investment! We'll live like kings!

8 posted on 10/25/2005 1:07:04 AM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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"estimated 26.9 million other slaves"

Is this credible?

As an estimate, it's a crapshoot...especially since those writing gloom-and-doom articles like to skew numbers ridiculously high.

That said, even if it's 10% of that number, it's still a problem...and one the U.N. will do nothing about apart from skimming some profits along the way.

9 posted on 10/25/2005 1:09:13 AM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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Largest religious group is Muslim. Slavery's old friend.
10 posted on 10/25/2005 1:12:31 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: nickcarraway

So, after all these years whites are still trying to get Africans to give up slavery.


11 posted on 10/25/2005 1:17:11 AM PDT by Razz Barry
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On Valentine's day, nothing says "I Love You" like a box of chockys created by the bleeding hands of a child who is a slave.


12 posted on 10/25/2005 1:27:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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It's funny to me that tonight I've seen two or three threads concerning slavery (one dealt directly with the sex trade) but every time anyone suggested that Natalee Holloway may have been sold into slavery they were castigated by other freepers.
13 posted on 10/25/2005 1:30:34 AM PDT by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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wait wait.....next we'll be hearing about turkey treatment,
you know, how badly they treat the birds and lets show the turkey farmers how sincere we are...lets cut down on thanksgiving. Next we'll have the Christmas controversy, banning on carols,religious symbols,Christmas trees,etc, etc...anyone else see the pattern here?
The timing of this story right before Halloween, an American tradition is suspect.


Doogle
14 posted on 10/25/2005 1:49:41 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF...7thAF ..4077th TFW...408th MMS..Ubon Thailand.."69",,Night Line Delivery..AMMO)
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In 1998, a U.S. State Department background report on the country acknowledged the existence of child slavery there.

Wait a minute! Didn't America have its first black President in office then, along with the smartest woman in the world as his First Lady? And wasn't the Secretary of State, the National Security Advisor and the Ambassador to the United Nations part of a foreign relations team that did so much to keep America safe and make the world a better place until it all went down the toilet at noon on January 20, 2001?

15 posted on 10/25/2005 1:53:31 AM PDT by Dahoser (Time to condense the nonsense: Terry Tate for Congressional Linebacker.)
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....follow up to previous post:
African slavery has been around for a very long time, so has chocolate. Now, it's an issue, I guess the Swiss will have to open up the old watch makers shops again.

Doogle
16 posted on 10/25/2005 1:53:45 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF...7thAF ..4077th TFW...408th MMS..Ubon Thailand.."69",,Night Line Delivery..AMMO)
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To: kublia khan

So what you are saying is you are afraid that your kid will pull a piece of candy from the halloween bag and ask "Daddy, did Natalee Holloway make this chocolate?"


17 posted on 10/25/2005 2:00:14 AM PDT by frankjr
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Meanwhile, I'll root for the chocolate industry to find a way to clean up its act.

..he better think about the coffee he drinks,the sneakers he wears,the shirt he wears,the shoe laces he ties,the ink his column is written with,...and I didn't even get into China...this guy needs a reality check

Doogle

18 posted on 10/25/2005 2:03:11 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF...7thAF ..4077th TFW...408th MMS..Ubon Thailand.."69",,Night Line Delivery..AMMO)
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This article is by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, take it with a grain of salt.


19 posted on 10/25/2005 2:04:36 AM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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But if the practice of slavery is part of their "culture", and if "multiculturalism" is good, then how can we object?


20 posted on 10/25/2005 2:06:42 AM PDT by The Duke
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