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Thread #33214   Message #443796
Posted By: Chicken Charlie
18-Apr-01 - 06:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Children Sold into Slavery at Sea
Subject: RE: Children Sold into Slavery at Sea
Two points--

First, a little deep background. Cadbury's has been saying since 1910 or so that everybody else's chocolate is produced by slaves. They used this to browbeat all the WASP's into buying their own Protestant (Quaker, actually)-blest stuff instead of that dirty Spanish Papist slave chocolate from Fernando Po, or wherever the Dons had their chocolate plantations. I gather from the above posts that Cadbury's still thinks it can get mileage out of that. Since Cadbury's tried to screw the independent growers just as badly, I would really like to see some objective [where, in this world?] comparisons of folks in Cadbury's employ vs. those elsewhere. Not that I'm cynical or anything.

Second, and I shouldn't do this because #1 was entirely true, and I'm only asking for trouble: Were those kids really slaves, or were they migrating somewhere in search of States' Rights? I'm already sorry I asked that. :)

Chicken Charlie