Critical Essay on Cadbury

Child labour is much worse than it is portrayed by the media. Child labour includes the employment of children in the business, food, clothing industries that is considered to be illicit or exploitative (Bonnet, 2017). It denies children their basic rights such as protection and freedom from exploitation. Children, instead of going to school, work in dangerous and physically damaging work due to limited access to resources. Reliable statistics are scare as child labour continues to grow each day in third world countries such as Africa. An abundance of evidence supports the idea that child slavery still exists in modern societies, where an estimation of 218 million children between 5 and 17 years are affected by slavery around the world (ILO,

Child labor was very common and popular especially in the late 1800s and early the 1900s even though many people were not aware of the dangers. We can define child labor as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and cause to their physical and mental development. Children are the base of a country but in a developing country child labor is an issue that has yet to disappear. Most of the children remain illiterate because of their poor economic condition and parents do not have enough money to spend on the education of their children, rather they send their children for work so that they could earn some money during their poor economic condition. The objective of my research paper is to raise awareness

Cadbury and Kraft both have different morals and approaches to how the business is run. Cadbury is a firm that is based in United Kingdom which has been living the legacy since the past 200 years and has hence reached a stage where the processes are well disciplined and well managed. The aim that Cadbury had was to produce high quality products in a way that the cost is minimized and the efficiency of the product is increased. The Quaker tradition has been made use of in order classify employees according to their Christian values. On the contrary of Cadbury, we have Kraft which has been operating in more than 25 countries worldwide and is hence a multinational company.

Child labor is a serious problem that affects children from third-world countries all over the world. These children are exploited by multinational corporations ,for their cheap labor all over the world. People, then buy products that come at a cheaper price, from these multinational corporations.These children are often overworked and treated unfairly. People need to stop buying items from countries that endorse child labor.

Alphonse, a cacao farmer, has never tasted or seen chocolate before. When Alphonse tries chocolate, he immediately gets why people the world over are buying it. "Ooh! It's nice ... and very sweet!" he exclaims . He and Kouassi speed off on a motorbike to share it with other cacao farmers and the young men who help him on his plantation. "This is why white people are so healthy,” Alphonse tells the other farmers as they pass a chocolate bar around a circle (“How to Make”). Many people in Western Africa don’t have the luxury of buying, eating, or even smelling chocolate. For many people on the Ivory Coast, cacao farming is their way of life. Cacao, a profitable crop grown primarily for export, comprises sixty percent of the Ivory Coast’s export revenue. As the chocolate industry has grown over the years, so has the demand for cheap cacao. On average, cacao farmers earn less than $2 per day, an income below the poverty line. As a result, they often resort to the use of child labor to

By exploring the use of child labor in the chocolate industry in West Africa, this paper will present the argument where I will argue that the unethical use of child labor has led to impoverished families, negative health impacts among children, and has affected economies in West Africa. In order to overcome this situation, there is a need for enforced policies, government action, and corporations taking accountability in order to put an end to child labor. The first part of the paper will discuss how the cocoa industry affects families, the health of child laborers, and the economy, followed by various

Chocolate industry has brought over 80 billion pounds of revenue to the economy. Western countries are the main consumer in terms of chocolate consumption, and Ivory Coast is the biggest cocoa producer supplying 60% of world’s cocoa beans. More than 10 million people rely on the cocoa beans productions in Ivory Coast, however there are uses of child trafficking and force them into slave labour. Children are malnutrition and they are working under very poor conditions and environment, using hazardous equipment such as machete without proper safety regulation. The use of child labour violates the definition of fair trade according to world fair trade organization: fair trade is a fair partnership designed to aid producers in developing countries; helps contribute to sustainability by offering better trading conditions and securing rights of workers. In my opinion this issue is very serious and should be taken action internationally, children are ignored and have to work in horrendous conditions which defy the Catholic Principles of Social Justice – human dignity, active involvement, rights to work and the common good.

Chocolate is the one of the famous snack in the world and consumed by a lot of consumers all around the world. Chocolate is made from cacao beans and cacao beans are produced by smallholder farmers. Most of the world’s cacao beans comes from West Africa, mostly the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire more than 40% of the world’s cacao beans. The cacao beans they grow sold to the most of the chocolate company. I found out the cacao beans may be the result of unfair labor, child labor and the slave. In the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, there is about 800,000 children are working at the cacao farm. These children are forced to work under such harsh condition due to reason such as economic factors, political factors ,and/or kidnaping. A survey on child labor

Ecuador is the biggest fine or flavor cocoa exporter of the world. Since chocolate is a billion dollar industry, one would think cocoa farmers would be benefit fairly. However, when the production chain is analyzed, one can find large differences between the working conditions of cocoa farmers and the chocolate factory employees. Still in the 21stcentury there exists a large amount of child labor in cocoa producing countries. Meanwhile in the chocolate factories (which are mainly located in developed countries), the transnational corporations boast about their compromise with ethics, particularly human rights and environmental protection.

Corporate social responsibility has been one the key business buzz words of the 21st century. Consumers' discontent with the corporation has forced it to try and rectify its negative image by associating its name with good deeds. Social responsibility has become one of the corporation's most pressing issues, each company striving to outdo the next with its philanthropic image. People feel that the corporation has done great harm to both the environment and to society and that with all of its wealth and power, it should be leading the fight to save the Earth, to combat poverty and illness and etc. "Corporations are now expected to deliver the good, not just the goods; to pursue

Today, while people around the world are enjoying the chocolate, some children in Ivory Coast and Ghana have to work for the cocoa industry even without pay. These children do not have the ability to accept an education and they are trafficked to do the work. According to the documentary called The Dark Side Of Chocolate, the child labour still exists in cocoa industry. In one scene, the journalist talks to the local officer about what he finds about child labour, nevertheless, the government officer insists there was no child in Ivory Coast. As the government officers, they should search about this issue and take action to save those children. Hence, this phenomenon is unfair to the children since they are denied their rights to study which will affect their lives by the cocoa industry, and people should help them from the dangerous situation.

The child labour is a serious widespread social problem for the rural and urban Colombia. There are many reasons why the children in this country are submitted to work either by their own or an obligation.

Cocoa trees are not easy to grow and require great care if you want the best highest quality yields. Cocoa trees grow on small farms in tropical environments, within 15-20 degrees of latitude from the equator. Cocoa is a delicate and sensitive crop, and farmers must protect trees from wind, sun, pests, and disease. Because of this they are only grown in certain parts of the world mainly Africa. Africa is a very poor continent and because of this many people will do whatever it takes to get whatever money they can, like work on a farm all day for less than two dollars per day. This can be avoided children don’t need to work on farms to help support their families, people don’t need to be abducted and forced to work on farms far from their homes and their families there are things we can do to stop this in the US. Currently in America there are little to no import laws on chocolate specifically just those for food in general and the only way to ensure that you get chocolate that was not gotten using any kind of slave or child labor is to make sure that it was imported through Fair Trade USA because they ensure that the chocolate is acquired through good means, so if they are made to be the main importer of chocolate then we can cut down the slave and child labor in Africa greatly.

Cadbury Schweppes is a UK-based beverage and confectionary group founded in 1969 with the merger of two English groups (Cadbury and Schweppes). This family-managed group grew and flourished through the years. It became an international major player in the late 80s and was admired by its peers for such an ascent.

Cadbury also segregates its products based on the demographics. The packaging of Cadbury is also good and it creates a long time impact in mind of customer. The consumer base of Cadbury is also expanding day by day as with its