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Thread #125072   Message #2768656
Posted By: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
18-Nov-09 - 03:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: Apology for forced child migration
Subject: RE: BS: Apology for forced child migration
Well maybe if people like Mars bought fair-trade chocolate from fair-trade farmers who pay a wage, instead of demanding the cheapest possible product from farmers who use slave labour, there would be less demand for child slave labour and thus the resultant trafficking in children that results? The market would simply shift. Albeit with a tiny reduction in the profits of massive corporations like Mars.

I can't believe that consumers simply choosing to *swap* non fair-trade chocolate, to buying fair-trade chocolate, will result in children starving.