{"id":53837,"date":"2022-05-22T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T10:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=53837"},"modified":"2022-05-22T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T10:34:10","slug":"chocolate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/05\/chocolate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>africa&#8217;s children suffering so<\/p>\n<p>kidnapped a lot of them<\/p>\n<p>and made to go<\/p>\n<p>to the very poor farms<\/p>\n<p>where the beloved cacao<\/p>\n<p>is grown and is harvested<\/p>\n<p>I do ask how?<\/p>\n<p>terrible conditions<\/p>\n<p>children are slaves<\/p>\n<p>big corporations<\/p>\n<p>many are knaves<\/p>\n<p>earning huge profits<\/p>\n<p>abusing those who<\/p>\n<p>are as poor as \u00a0church mice<\/p>\n<p>That is the view<\/p>\n<p>of their future perhaps<\/p>\n<p>the struggle for life<\/p>\n<p>bound up in much pain and heartache<\/p>\n<p>and tragically<\/p>\n<p>a world of strife<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>calves many calves<\/p>\n<p>find the death camp<\/p>\n<p>or end up as veal on a slab<\/p>\n<p>their milk \u00a0was stolen<\/p>\n<p>to add to the chocolate<\/p>\n<p>a pint and a half Cadbury!s grab<\/p>\n<p>imagine the pain of the mother<\/p>\n<p>seeing her babies consigned<\/p>\n<p>to the abattoir<\/p>\n<p>care of the \u00a0farmers<\/p>\n<p>as on the poor souls<\/p>\n<p>many dined<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the industry doesnt help chickens or calves<\/p>\n<p>babies are murdered each day<\/p>\n<p>whether for chocolates<\/p>\n<p>or for Easter \u00a0eggs<\/p>\n<p>the animals passing away<\/p>\n<p>East african children<\/p>\n<p>still many slaves<\/p>\n<p>and the cacao farmers all \u00a0poor<\/p>\n<p>the chocolate sales all over the West<\/p>\n<p>Its a test to how many \u00a0ignore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the reality and continue to buy less of the<\/p>\n<p>artisanal \u00a0organic no palm oil no dairy brands<\/p>\n<p>and more of the heavily advertised brands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>slavery child labour poverty rainforest loss to the world<\/p>\n<p>palm oil \u00a0dairy industry suffering<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>africa&#8217;s children suffering so kidnapped a lot of them and made to go to the very poor farms where the beloved cacao is grown and is harvested I do ask how? terrible conditions children are slaves big corporations many are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/05\/chocolate-2\/\">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":[344,194,4,314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-africa","category-animal-rights","category-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53837","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=53837"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53843,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53837\/revisions\/53843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}