CBS News found children in Ghana as young as 5 years old using machetes nearly as big as themselves to harvest the cocoa beans that end up in some of America's most-loved chocolates like M&Ms and Snickers. Debora Patta reports.
I think the answer is the parents of those kids need to be able to make a living that can support their children. Yes they might be worse off if they lose that income but that misses the bigger issue that children shouldn’t need to earn an income to help support their families.
As soon as child labor truly disappears, the workers pool is reduced and workers compensation must go up. Child labor only benefits the companies paying less.
There was a CIA sponsored coup d’etat in Ghana that put the National Liberation Council government in power, they made sure resources in the country could be extracted by private entities at the lowest possible cost.
US foreign policy is based on exploiting resources around the world for private profit at the expense of the local population, hence the fascist coups they’ve implemented particularly in South America the last half century to ensure these sort of resources aren’t nationalized or kept out of the hands of private corporations.
I think the answer is the parents of those kids need to be able to make a living that can support their children. Yes they might be worse off if they lose that income but that misses the bigger issue that children shouldn’t need to earn an income to help support their families.
That is obvious yet it doesn’t happened but i somehow don’t see it would happened by e.g. closing the chocolate factories or something like that.
As soon as child labor truly disappears, the workers pool is reduced and workers compensation must go up. Child labor only benefits the companies paying less.
Exactly you don’t shuy down chocolate production that’s not the evil part, chocolate is delicious and I love it. You shut down the child slavery.
There was a CIA sponsored coup d’etat in Ghana that put the National Liberation Council government in power, they made sure resources in the country could be extracted by private entities at the lowest possible cost.
US foreign policy is based on exploiting resources around the world for private profit at the expense of the local population, hence the fascist coups they’ve implemented particularly in South America the last half century to ensure these sort of resources aren’t nationalized or kept out of the hands of private corporations.