Hello everyone! I am Constance from Professor Combellick’s Fair Trade: Entrepreneurship class. I will discuss something about the documentary “The dark side of chocolate” in the following paragraphs.

Although it is not the first time to know about trafficking, I am really shocked by it. According to the documentary, in ivory coast, parents sell their children because they are so poor to afford the expense of families. As a result, the children were forced to pick the cocoa bean without money. Furthermore, if they don’t do it, people who charged for their task will beat them. The older children want to run away and hide for many days but are caught back soon. It is really hard to imagine how to endure such a life.

The trafficking children from their parents is immoral. Every parent regards child as the most important things. And children at around 10 years old are supposed to study in the school to accept education. It is short sighting to destroy the next generation only for labor.

Simultaneously, the attitudes of leaders in government and factories can not be tolerated. The government leaders may receive the bribery and make acquiesces to the trafficking children and respond to the Miki Mistrat’s interview, they said: “it is not a big problem” and “ we have thought about some solutions to handle it.” And the manager of the cocoa industries is more apathetic: “We just know nothing about trafficking, and the workers are all adults”.

The corruption between the government and industries exacerbated. Only a few people are rich in the cocoa plantation area. The discrepancy between rich and poor expands gradually. Government knew the crime in the society but pay no attention to it, allowing people to abduct and traffick ignorant children.