1. Should chocolate makers like Cadbury and Nestle be held accountable for
the actions of their suppliers? Is it their responsibility to ensure that their
suppliers produce cocoa without using child labor of child slave labor?
-I think that the makers should be held accountable for their actions and
their constant financial support to their suppliers. Will companies funding
the slave labor, they are enabling it, and saying that it is okay and that they
support what is going on. There is no turning a cheek and looking the other
way. They either support child labor, or they do not. If they do not, they
need to find a more ethical supplier.
3. If you were Nestle’s CEO, what would you do? Buy the more expensive
Fair Trade cocoa, or continue to buy the less expensive, less ethical cocoa?
–If I were the CEO of Nestle, I would like to think that I would choose the
ethical route by paying more for the cocoa. There is always going to be a
market for chocolate, and no matter what the price is, there will always be
someone that is willing to pay for it.
4. As a consumer, what responsibility, if any, do you bear for eliminating the
use of child slave labor and child labor in the production of
chocolate? Does the knowledge that chocolate that does not bear the Fair–
Trade symbol is likely to have been produced using child slave labor
change how you feel about buying the product?
-For me, personally, I do not like chocolate, so I do not buy it for myself.
Knowing that just about everyone else loves chocolate, when I buy it as a
gift I am going to check to see if I can find the Fair-Trade symbol on the
package. I can hold myself accountable for not taking part in child slave