雪焰★Angelin的小窩

Chocolate!!! It absolutely is the favorite dessert for every girl. 

For me, I'm the chocolate lover, I prefer the dark chocolate which has the bitter taste. 

But, as a chocolate lover, do we know  the sources of the chocolate ? 

Previously, I heard about the smartphones are using the bloody metal, 

so I started to think about the chocolate sources. I found the surprising answer. 

In this capitalism society, for who have the money and power can manipulate the poor people. 

This is cruel but also the truth. 

Everyone needs money to maintain the daily needs to continue living. 

In Western Africa, the whole largest cocoa plantation produces two-third of cocoa for the world. 

Especially the Ivory Coast, there sources 43% of cocoa for world. 

The main problem is, the people will using 1 Euro to buy a kilo of cocoa from the plantation. 

But after they produces it become to cocoa power or cocoa butter, they can sold it for 2.5 Euro per kilo. 

Lastly, the manufacturer who produce chocolate products to us can make 40 bar of chocolates by a kilo of cocoa they brought. 

So, in this production line,they earn huge profits from us and become greatest company which have largest profits. 

But, we back the plantation. The plantation owner usually will trafficking the child from the poor village. 

The traders will go to the village and lies or catch the child on the streets. 

After that, they will use motorcycle to trafficking the child to the border of Ivory Coast  by the secret path. 

A child around 10 - 15 years old are the main target for the traders. A child can be sold by 250 Euro including the transportation fee. 

For the plantation owner who bought the child, he gets the rights to let the child work for him with no pays and unlimited time. 

So, this problems are very common in the western Africa. 

The manufacturers always try to hide this truth from public. 

But, through the documentary "The Dark Side of Chocolate". 

This is a very surprising documentary for me about the truth inside it. 

I didn't know that the capitalism society is such cruel to the child who living in poor village and needs money to live. 

I feel I am very lucky and happiness. At least, i no need to become a slave to work very hard but get no pays. 

At here, I hope the manufacturer of  chocolate can be mind on this issue. 

The international group need them to cooperate, so they can ensure this issue can be prohibited. 

For the chocolate lover as me, we need to be more concern on the sources of the chocolate. 

We need to be more concern on the child worker and trafficking issue in Africa.