How tae help defeat the slave trades that still exist?

Weel, for stairters: stop eatin sae muckle chocolate. The international chocolate trade relies on a hantle o child & slave labour. (Addictive substances hae allus been connectit wi human slavery. Consider sugar, alcohol, coffee, tobacco, an various & sundry narcotics thro history. Think carefully afore ye buy ONY o those things. Consider whae benefits frae, & whae suffers for, aa yir purchases.)

If ye maun hae yir chocolate, (an Ah'm no exemptin masel, here), dae yir best tae seek oot fair-trade/organic/sustainable producers, an resairch the brands an their source kintras (countries) wi care. (West Africa haes some o the wairst documentit cases o child slavery on cocoa plantations.)

Buy frae those whae employ wairker-cooperatives an refuse tae use child labour. (Ane place tae luik: www.coopamerica.org.) The chocolate's mair expensive per purchase, aye, but ye'll no hae bluid on yir hauns while ye're eatin it.

--Cuilionn (far belaw the poverty line, but ettlin tae mak ev'ry penny count for sumpit!)