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Thread #98861   Message #2678691
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
12-Jul-09 - 08:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Will YOU stop eating chocolate?
Subject: RE: BS: Will YOU stop eating chocolate?
Cote d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast is hardly a country, divided between the Muslims in the North (no government representation) and the animists and christians in the south. War can re-start any time, in spite of efforts by UN peacekeepers.
Stop buying their coffee, cocoa and other agricultural products, and many will starve, adults as well as children.
Three-fourths of the people have little or no education.
An income producer, diamonds, has been forced into the black market.

Unless money, troops and educators can be poured into the country, there is no solution to the child labor, lack of government, racial and religious conflicts, corruption and other problems. There are no signs that the developed countries are willing to do this.

Paying higher prices will just put more money into a corrupt government, much of it ending up sent back out of the country.

I repeat, boycott and increase starvation. There is no easy solution.