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Re: Thurs (12/5): talk on child slavery in chocolate production
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George S Waksman)
Tue Dec 3 18:18:06 2002
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To: Anke Hildebrandt (by way of "Steven R. L. Millman"
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Dec 2002 17:52:46 EST."
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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 18:17:00 -0500
From: George S Waksman <waksman@MIT.EDU>
Look, if I didn't like slave chocolate I would have joined your little
cult. However, since I have obviously not joined a mailing list to get
your stuff, don't send me your crap. I mean, hell, everyone knows that
oompa-loopas make the best candy.
-George Waksman
Anke Hildebrandt wrote:
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><br><br>
><br>
><div align="center"><font size=4><b>Child Slaves: An Ingredient You
>Wouldn't Expect In Your Chocolate<br>
></font>Thursday, December 5<br>
> 7:00 PM, room 4-231<br><br>
>a talk by Steven R. L. Millman<br><br>
><br>
></b></div>
>A talk about what can go wrong with globalization and FREE GOURMET
>CHOCOLATE (no slavery added) to taste.<br><br>
>*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\<br><br>
>Event sponsored by Students for Global Sustainability and the Graduate
>Students Council. Chocolates donated by Scharffen Berger!<br><br>
><b>Abstract:<br>
></b>It is one of the cruelest ironies of the modern world that children
>in rich, industrialized nations eat chocolate everyday made with cocoa
>grown and harvested by child slaves their own age in the Ivory
>Coast. Some are as young as eight years old, stolen away from their
>homes and families, barely fed, and savagely beaten if they work too slow
>or attempt to escape. Ivorian cocoa (~45% of all cocoa produced) is
>used by nearly all of the major chocolate companies, and represents a
>crown jewel in what can go wrong with globalization and poor planning in
>sustainable development. <br><br>
>For more information, see
><a href="http://www.radicalthought.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.radicalth
>ought.org</a></html>
>
