No one gives a S about anything in this country except MONEY MONEY Is god here period.Īnd yet even with all these great social programs somehow all these countries sitll have rich people I guess Capitalisma and social programs can co-exist!!! Who would have known. In France there is a government run nanny/maid serive to help single mothers that is FREE, so that women can still work and raise her children WITH HELP UNLIKE IN THIS COUNTRY because some countries actually care about the well being of their citizens.Īnd that is just the tip of the iceberg I could go on and on about the quality of life and the government run resources in these other countries that puts this one to shame.
In Sweden women are allowed to take 1 YEAR maturnity leave and her husband can take 1 year so that their child gets adequate time to grow with a parent, Both of there jobs by law will be waiting for them, and they GET PAID for this time period. There are way better countries out there than here.ĪLL OF THEM HAVE A FORM OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE!!! United States is so far down the list its ridiculous and Americans are brainwashed by there own arrogance. Norway, Sweden, Canada, Belgium, Autstranlia, Switzerland, Netherlands, France etc. And with the inspections that go on, you know that their children aren't working and are getting an education."ĭo you know what countries have the highest standard/quality of life in the world? Let me tell you because Americans are blinded by there own rhetoric and the media. And also with fair trade, you know that they're going to be at least on the road to being paid a decent wage. "I'd like you to buy something where you, as a consumer, can vote responsibly for better treatment of these farmers. "I'd like you to buy either a fair trade chocolate or a direct trade chocolate," Romano says. Those last two together account for nearly 60 percent of global cocoa production.Īnd right now, you can still find children working in the cocoa fields as Romano and his crew did to film "The Dark Side of Chocolate." The seven largest cocoa-producing countries are Indonesia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Brazil, Ecuador, the Ivory Coast and Ghana. The International Labour Organization estimates between 56 and 72 million African children work in agriculture, many in their own family farms. The person who may have sold it or who may have made it may not even be an adult. It may be that the treat is the product of someone else's hard labor. Read a statement from the Global Chocolate and Cocoa Industry |īut before you bite into a chocolate bar or take a sip of hot cocoa, consider, where did it come from? Roberto Romano, whose documentary "The Dark Side of Chocolate" investigates child labor and cocoa fields in the Ivory Coast. CNN's Richard Quest talks to filmmaker U.