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  I'm in grade eight this year and I did my speech on child slavery. I was shocked and completely appaled at such human ignorance. Do chocolate producers really think that aa sweet snack is more important than the very lives of young children all over the world? I know I allong with you, and countless others- if they knew dont. One thing that my father pointed out to me though, was that even if they stop using child slaves, those children will be back with there faimilies and not getting beaten and abused, wich is an improvement- im NOT denying that, but them and their faimily still have no money- the reason some of them were sent into slavery in the first place- for the teeny amount of money they can get out of it. I think we have a bigger issue on our hands than we think. Refraining to support theese chocolate companies, and even aboloshing slavery altogether would still leave millions hungry, homeless, and dying.
Im going to hold a fundraiser at my school selling slave- free chocolate and arising awairness about this issue, but I urge others to think about ways we can help those faimilies find other ways to produce a reasonable income- a humane way. I know a store called 10 000 villages that sells things people in third world countries made. They are beautiful and unique things and I urge everyone to look for a store neer them. I'll also start a petition at my school of about 1000 students and hopefully that will get many signatures. I would like to thank everyone who puts effort into this cause and this website. You all have amazing hearts.
 
  Let's all make our small difference in this apperently horrific world
God Bless,
  Meg

Edited by author 02-05-2009 08:21 PM
this has got to stop like now. I never new or was informed about this until now and it makes me want to cry. The reason we need to make this stop is because if we dont worse could happen, and what that means to is children dead not just dead tortered and then slaved and also what I learnded was these kids dont get a good education they get nothing.
And I just wanted to add one more thing if we dont do something I will. Think about it these humans living peoples live's are fading away.

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Dear,miss


Im very sorry this is happening because it is terrrible to see little kids getting punished like that i think that they don't have heart to do something like that because they don't respect humans they don't have minimum respect for themselves.I would like to see them getting treated like that working on farms getting treated the way those poor children do. what is so hard about yust doing it the fair way?I think our government if they want a peaceful world should imediatly STOP this horroble commitment.

I have just resonantly but my voice out there.
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hello

i am in primary school and the grade 6's are looking at the toppic and have formed a partition nearly the whole school has sighned wich is 750 people plus the taeachers and i think it is crule because how would u like it if u were hit because u werent working hard enough or if u were just a kid and u were taken away from your families and had to work in a chocolate factory and getting wipped with bike chaines

Representative Schiff,

It has recently come to my attention that much of the chocolate sold in the U.S. is tainted by the horrific issue of slavery.

Next Sunday (3/25/07) is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of trans-Atlantic slavery and yet slavery is a bigger issue today than it was then. Around 15 million people were enslaved in the 400 years that humans were trafficked from Africa to the US and other places. Today, as I write this, some 27 million people live as slaves, throughout the world, with at least 50,000 of that 27 million living here in the U.S. Some are sex slaves, some are labor slaves, some are children who were bought to be sacrificed.

But many were bought to be put to work in the cocoa fields of West Africa and elsewhere. It is estimated that 12,000 children currently serve as slaves in the cocoa farms of Cote D'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast), a west-African country that is one of the leading producers of chocolate.

I don't know about you, but I am outraged by this and I demand more from the businesses of our great country. There must be a way for Americans to be ensured that the chocolate they buy is traffik-free. Please join with Senator Harkin and others in an effort to put an end to this gross injustice!

Thank you for your time,

Rev. Jay Matthew Barnes

This is terrible! I never knew that that this was going on! We have to stop it! I thought slavery was gone and done with, guess I was wrong. We should make shirts. "Stop chocolate slavery!"

Sent to M&M Mars:

I will refrain from buying or eating your products until such are certified Fair Trade and therefore free of the taint of slavery. One of my ancestors served in the Union Army, risking his life to end slavery in this country (11th Mich. Vol. Infantry); a small way that I can say thank you to him for doing his duty for Union and freedom is to avoid products that support that evil institution in other countries.

Sincerely,
Don Belding