alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 7 months agoCandy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghanawww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down10cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1103arrow-down1external-linkCandy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghanawww.cbsnews.comalyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square18fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
minus-squarespriteblood@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up27·7 months agoA good start to fixing the poverty is if companies making obscene amounts of money from their labor start fairly paying people in these areas.
minus-squarejarfil@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months ago🤣… sorry, but since when have any companies paid fairly in any areas?
minus-squareP1r4nha@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThat is why I’m buying chocolate made in Africa, rather than chocolate made from beans from Africa. That way the value is generated there and not here.
A good start to fixing the poverty is if companies making obscene amounts of money from their labor start fairly paying people in these areas.
🤣… sorry, but since when have any companies paid fairly in any areas?
That is why I’m buying chocolate made in Africa, rather than chocolate made from beans from Africa. That way the value is generated there and not here.
Does it affect the kids?
How does one do that?