{"id":52859,"date":"2022-03-12T16:24:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T16:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=52859"},"modified":"2022-03-12T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T16:24:17","slug":"child-slavery-and-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/03\/child-slavery-and-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Child slavery and chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the cacao bean or cocoa<\/p>\n<p>West Africa \u00a0best hear<\/p>\n<p>chocolate grown in \u00a0Ghana and the Ivory Coast<\/p>\n<p>appear<\/p>\n<p>to harbour cruel and nasty farms<\/p>\n<p>where children from Mali be<\/p>\n<p>from Bhurkino \u00a0Faso<\/p>\n<p>kidnapped children see<\/p>\n<p>a life of the vilest misery<\/p>\n<p>ALL STOLEN AWAY<\/p>\n<p>to slavery, to suffering<\/p>\n<p>to fearfulness,m no day<\/p>\n<p>goes by without the tedium and pain<\/p>\n<p>of slaving in some jungle<\/p>\n<p>and never being the \u00a0same<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>working with machete&#8217;s \u00a0and poisons<\/p>\n<p>night and day<\/p>\n<p>no protective clothing<\/p>\n<p>slavery no pay<\/p>\n<p>from five year olds to twelve year olds<\/p>\n<p>on bananas and corn paste<\/p>\n<p>really very weakening foods<\/p>\n<p>with god knows what else laced<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>these poor kids farm cacao<\/p>\n<p>what an awful life<\/p>\n<p>stolen from their families<\/p>\n<p>all they \u00a0see is strife<\/p>\n<p>and in the West cheap chocolate<\/p>\n<p>Easter eggs we buy<\/p>\n<p>West \u00a0Africa \u00a0best watch them<\/p>\n<p>its where slavery is high.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the cacao bean or cocoa West Africa \u00a0best hear chocolate grown in \u00a0Ghana and the Ivory Coast appear to harbour cruel and nasty farms where children from Mali be from Bhurkino \u00a0Faso kidnapped children see a life of the vilest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/03\/child-slavery-and-chocolate\/\">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":[344,173,311,314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-child-exploitation","category-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52859","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=52859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52860,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52859\/revisions\/52860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}