The world’s largest food company, ‘Nestle’, has been recently accused by the Fair Labor Association (FLA) of violating its own supplier code by using children in its production of cocoa, the primary source for the production of chocolate. According to the article published by BBC, the misuse of labour in cocoa production was found in its first stages. Although Nestle purchases their product from other corporations that agree to the company’s code, they were fully aware that the production of cocoa had primary stages that would most likely involve the use of child labour. The FLA president, Auret Van Herdeen, mentions that Nestle will be held accountable for misusing labour in their cocoa production.

The unethical issue dealt in this post was the use of children in the production of an extremely important resource for one of the most influential company’s in the world. Although Nestle has a code that specifies immoral actions that go against the company’s beliefs, the fact that the chocolate sold by Nestle is primarily produced by children in west Africa qualifies it as an unethical.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18644870