America 's Obsession With Chocolate

Chocolate was first discovered in the 18th century and every child’s dream came true all over

The U.S. government is playing a key role in curbing America’s sugar consumption. This was initially created through a new version of our dietary guidelines. Dietary guidelines are created through the USDA to help guide food choices and encourage healthier foods. What was once a pyramid has now turned into a plate, a resource called MyPlate. It provides a visual (pictured below) and an interactive website with daily food-intake values and tips. This has helped American’s with their eating habits but some areas but has also pinpointed areas that need to be more addressed… such as sugar. In fact, poor diet is responsible for more disease than other lifestyle choices.

The United States consumes “2.8 billion pounds of chocolate each year, or over 11 pounds per person. Americans eat an average of 22 pounds of candy each year”(The Chocolate Store). Because the United States consumes an exuberant amount of chocolate, the nation poses an insurmountable influence on the processes of the chocolate industry. Fair Trade strives to ensure the safety of workers in the chocolate industry, allow workers to make liveable profits and most importantly, This corporation ensures that no child labor was used in the process of harvesting the cocoa. Not only does Fair Trade aid in helping cocoa farmers achieve a higher quality of life, but the majority of Fair Trade efforts improve education for children while keeping them out of the plantations and in the classroom. Fair Trade premiums provide money to families who desperately need birth certificates for their children because “if a family does not obtain a birth certificate within the child’s first few months of life, it can be very expensive and burdensome to obtain one” and many schools require birth certificates to enroll (Huffington Post). Fair Trade premiums also allow for more schools to be built in areas abundant with cocoa plantations (Huffington Post). Even though Fair Trade certified chocolate is more expensive than uncertified products, basic human rights have no dollar amount. The extra money paid for Fair Trade certified chocolate goes to aiding children in breaking free from a cycle poverty, which would otherwise be endless. The few more coins spent on Fair Trade chocolate provides hope to those bound in slavery to the world’s

The forced labour of children in the Ivorian cocoa farms is at a distance from the glamourised candy producers such as Mars and Nestlé, and a universe away from the day-to-day consumers of chocolate. That such a quixotic market shares a commonality with the more exposed diamond market, for example, whose implication in the sale and involvement of guns in tribal cleansing has long been documented, drives home the reminder that our modern prosperity, usually reached and used with the best of consumer intentions, if not also the corporate, and even our harmless, insignificant indulgences sometimes owe themselves to an extremely complex source environment. In this paper we dissect the

The chocolate plantations, or the cacao farms as they are more commonly referred to, are primarily located in the tropical areas of Western Africa, Latin America, and Asia. (foodispower.org) Cacao farms are located in these areas because this is where the environment needed for the cacao beans to grow is located. Out of these different areas, the African countries Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire (or the Ivory Coast as it is sometimes referred to) produce over 70% of the world’s cacao beans. (foodispower.org) In Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire whole communities are devoted to just

If we eat chocolate then through trading in some way we are all involved whether it is the governments, the farmers, the chocolate manufacturers, or consumers who unknowingly buy chocolate we are all responsible for the atrocity that is child labour in West Africa.

During my study of The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier, I have found an interesting idea within the text and I will be describing why this idea is interesting as a whole. The general idea of The Chocolate War is to show that there is one main theme in the book which is the study of the effects of good versus evil. Jerry represents the good in people whereas Archie shows the evil side of them. The book is set at a catholic school where sport plays a huge part in their curriculum and the result of his refusal to do this is a tragedy that could have been avoided. It is based on an incident which involves selling chocolates to raise funds for the school. These chocolates are supposed to be sold by all the boys but Jerry refuses to sell them and

All around the world, chocolate is loved and shared all throughout countries and in markets. The thing people don’t know about this delicious treat is that the way it’s processed is actually a dangerous form of slavery. Both children and adults in Africa are sold and bought to work on these plantations under strict rule, long hours, and malnutrition. This has put many Africans at risk all for our heavenly chocolate. Attention needs to be brought to cacao plantation slavery because the plantations are dangerous and lead to a lot of deaths of innocent people, slavery should’ve been done with a while ago, and conditions are unsafe and unhealthy. These things really contribute to the reason why this cruelty to people on chocolate plantations should

I’m assuming like others, we do not actually know much about the import of our Easter chocolates and the connection they have with human trafficking victims in both in other countries and our own. What you may not know is that according to World Vision 70% if the worlds cocoa, which is then made into chocolate, is harvested in West Africa, a hot spot for both trafficking and child labour, these chocolates are then distributed into Australia and other countries and sold more than triple the price in which that child would have been paid to make such chocolate.

EndorphinsChocolate, one America's top industry's. We produce more chocolate and chocolate products than any other country, over 2.9 billion pounds a year. There has been much controversy about the lack of nutritional value of in it's contents, yet new studies have shown that

Some of the world’s largest chocolate giants, and very familiar, almost comforting names, such as Hershey, Mars, and Nestle are heavily dependent on West African Cocoa Farmers. When we ignorantly purchase chocolates from these companies, we sentence millions of children to a life of misery.[PAUSE-MORE OPTIMISTIC] In choosing companies who produce fair trade chocolate, such as, Cadbury, we can improve the lifestyles of entire communities.

Chocolate one of the only things in the world that can be as addictive as a drug but not affect our health in a detrimental way. Sometimes when eating that chocolaty goodness, do you ever think about where I could have possibly come from, or even looking past the chocolate itself, what about the companies that produce that small bite of happiness, are they receiving the right benefits? Ferrero Rocher is one of the biggest Chocolatiers in the world, it’s websites provides an abundance of information on the chocolate itself and company heritage, as well as provides insight on the social responsibility, environmental safety, and the importance of their workers.

Cadbury Dairy Milk has been the market leader in the chocolate category for years. Andhas participated and been a part of every Indian 's moments of happiness, joy andcelebration. Today, Cadbury Dairy Milk alone holds 30% value share of the Indianchocolate market.In the early 90 's, chocolates were seen as 'meant for kids ', usually a reward or a bribe for children. In the Mid 90 's the category was re-defined by the very popular `Real Taste of Life ' campaign, shifting the focus from `just for kids ' to the `kid in all of us '. It appealedto the child in every adult. And

Chocolate has often been considered a luxury and a selfish, guilty pleasure because of its expense and the subliminal

In West African Countries, children no older than five, work on cocoa farms, harvest cocoa beans. "Often, traffickers abduct the young children from small villages in neighboring African countries, such as Burkina Faso, and Mali, two of the poorest countries in the world. Once they have been taken to cocoa farms, the children may not see their families for years, if ever."(Food Empowerment Project) This system is reflective of the process of reseting the Jews into the camps and removing them from their families. This is slavery because, "slavery in the cocoa industry involves the same core human rights violation as other forms of slavery throughout the world." In the cocoa farms, the "slaves" are forced to be locked up over night to prevent them to escape. The inhabitants were also whipped and beat. They were mistreated reminiscent of the Elie and the other