Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: ScottinVA
Of course, this regime believes teens working on family farms are subjected to a form of “slavery” as well.

Actually, that's kind of what the kids in the "report" looked like to me.

13 posted on 04/05/2012 6:24:30 AM PDT by wbill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]


To: wbill
Actually, that's kind of what the kids in the "report" looked like to me.

No, this one really is slavery. Children are lured from nearby Mali or sold by their parents to plantation owners. Since there is a nearly endless cheap supply of new slaves, conditions on the plantations are abysmal. Hershey's is starting to react -- after 10 years of giving lip service to the problem -- but if you're eating mass market chocolate you are supporting slavery.

This should be an issue for the right, which values individual dignity and freedom. The left values community and obedience to the state, so all we're getting from them is more ineffectual garbage and guilt trips.

59 posted on 04/05/2012 7:49:19 AM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson