{"id":1,"date":"2012-09-06T06:12:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T13:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-11-18T22:11:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T05:11:25","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/2012\/09\/06\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Ethics: A Bittersweet Business Turned Slightly Sweeter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not the common image we would associate\u2014or even want to associate\u2014with the chocolate that soothes our soul.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How guilty do you feel eating a chocolate bar? Or, to reword the question, how guilty do you now feel eating a chocolate bar heavily based on forced child labour in harsh working conditions? The answer\u2019s a no-brainer.<\/p>\n

Since 2010, advocates from Raise the Bar campaign<\/a> and their partners against the exploitation of children on chocolate farms have been calling on Hershey\u2019s\u2014the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America\u2014to meet the standards of ethically sourced cocoa. In August 2012, Hershey\u2019s finally made a big announcement following the International Labour Rights Forum\u2019s threat to air an ad about Hershey\u2019s child labour conditions on a Jumbotron screen during a Super Bowl game, along with pressure from 41 independent food and natural grocery stores through Raise the Bar\u2019s letter campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The company has pledged that all the cocoa for its Bliss line of chocolates would be Rainforest Alliance Certified by 2013, meaning the chocolates would meet the three pillars of sustainability<\/a>: Environmental protection, social equity and economic viability. Hershey\u2019s also plans to invest $10 million in West Africa by 2017 to encourage economic initiatives, reduce child labour and improve cocoa supply and launched CocoaLink<\/a> in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, a communications project which delivers information via mobile phone to improve yields, incomes and standards of living for farmers and ultimately reduce the need for child labour and increase the opportunity for their children to attend school.<\/p>\n

For more information on child trafficking and chocolate farms, see BBC’s documentary\u00a0Chocolate: The Bitter Truth<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Information from: http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/midstate\/index.ssf\/2012\/08\/post_397.html<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/02\/01\/hersheys-child-labor_n_1247111.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Image via:\u00a0http:\/\/www.gleniswillmott.eu\/the-darker-side-of-chocolate\/young-boy-rakes-cocoa-beans-on-a-drying-rack\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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How guilty do you feel eating a chocolate bar? Or, to reword the question, how guilty do you now feel eating a chocolate bar heavily based on forced child labour in harsh working conditions? The answer\u2019s a no-brainer. Since 2010, advocates from Raise the Bar campaign and their partners against the exploitation of children on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}