"Saw another show (yeah I am a documentary whore) about child slave labour in Asia, especially in the oriental rug industry. These boys are bought from parents in small villages (parent promised their child will learn a good trade), transported back to sweatshop life. They are beaten and starved. and little girls as young as 7 and 8 sold to be house maids for rich families. Saw one girl 13 years old whose hands were grossly deformed from 5 years hard graft for rich family."

There was a thread on MC some time back about Fare Trade Chocolate and the forced child labour involved in much non fair-trade chocolate.

One of the most unpleasant things about the entire thread wasn't so much the stuff about the child slave labour that goes into our everyday chocolate goodies, but the comments from posters here who proudly declared that they loved their chocolate toooo much to change their habits, and "Tee Hehe!!" could simply never give up their yummy chocolate fix for that horrible fair-trade stuff!!!

Yes, really... :-/