Saturday, February 12, 2011

In case you're planning to buy some chocolate this weekend

From an old Planet Green post of mine:

Some 14 million people are directly involved in cocoa production but that doesn’t mean they love chocolate as much as us. For example, Global Exchange reports that tens of thousands of children between the ages of 9 and 12 have been sold into forced labor cocoa plantations in northern Ivory Coast in Africa. By instituting Fair Trade Certified production criteria, says Global Exchange, we guarantee “a minimum price and insure that no child or forced labor is used. The criteria also stipulate that farmers’ organizations should be organized democratically, and that plantation workers should be able to participate in trade union activities. Fair Trade producers are monitored at least once a year.”

Read the full post here

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Another of my recent photos:

The spaces in-between

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Poem: “haiku slide"


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