{"id":11914,"date":"2013-10-24T16:47:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11914"},"modified":"2013-10-24T17:03:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T17:03:43","slug":"chocolate-and-the-slaves-producing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/chocolate-and-the-slaves-producing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate and the slaves producing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t fool yourselves<br \/>\nthe corporates have been at it all<br \/>\nthese years<br \/>\nagony and no ecstasy<br \/>\nbut lots of sacks of tears<\/p>\n<p>the big names you all know them<br \/>\nthey know how to make<br \/>\nprofit, margins and more profit<br \/>\nits all, for their own sake<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working with Cacao<br \/>\nin South West Asia, and I know<br \/>\nhow bloody hard it really is<br \/>\nhow that stuff does grow<\/p>\n<p>40% of all the chocolate<br \/>\nbeing sold in corporate stores<br \/>\nis slavery tainted chocolate<br \/>\nwhich everyone ignores<\/p>\n<p>and the kids have all been stolen<br \/>\nor  their parents paid<br \/>\na measly sum<br \/>\nthey dont get paid and on them is laid<br \/>\na lot of agony and danger<br \/>\nenough to make me numb<\/p>\n<p>machetes to the fore<br \/>\naccidents galore<br \/>\nchopping off their fingers<br \/>\nas they chop those fruits<br \/>\nand they are almost naked<br \/>\nthey certainly dont wear boots<\/p>\n<p>just corn mash and bananas<br \/>\nand the wooden floor for sleep<br \/>\nno windows no clean water<br \/>\nwhat they sow you reap<\/p>\n<p>injured, its back breaking work<br \/>\nthis corporate nonsense here<br \/>\nmilk from the dead calves is added<br \/>\nand sugar don&#8217;t shed a tear<\/p>\n<p>yet, the time is coming<br \/>\nthose chocolate cakes and eggs<br \/>\nare putting pounds on your behind<br \/>\nand also on your legs<\/p>\n<p>chocolate costs a fortune<br \/>\nin agony and pain<br \/>\nso what you save remember<br \/>\ntry now to refrain<\/p>\n<p>from buying corporate nonsense<br \/>\ngo to the artisan<br \/>\nlet the big names go to hell<br \/>\nthat would be the plan<\/p>\n<p>the slaves will get some rest then<br \/>\nand they need it they really do<br \/>\nwhether they work for nothing folks<br \/>\nits all down to you<\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t fool yourselves the corporates have been at it all these years agony and no ecstasy but lots of sacks of tears the big names you all know them they know how to make profit, margins and more profit its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/chocolate-and-the-slaves-producing-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-and-their-plight-in-a-adult-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11916,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions\/11916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}