This Easter, Britons will have eaten their way through 80 million chocolate eggs, but would we have such a sweet tooth if we knew how it was harvested?
Sixty per cent of cocoa beans found in chocolate on UK shop shelves are sourced in Ghana and Ivory Coast. The programme shows Fatao, a 12 year old boy from Burkino Faso, who Panorama discovers working on a cocoa farm in Ghana. He is just one of thousands of trafficked children helping to feed the worlds appetite for chocolate
The Panorama reporter goes undercover as a cocoa trader, buying a tonne of cocoa made with Child Labour, and sees how easy it is to sell it into the supply chain which leads to our high streets.
It would be good if you could watch the whole programme to widen you knowledge of this issue. (Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=njwSEoWyMqc&feature=related) but I would like you to look particularly at Part 5 (below) which focuses on two of the major chocolate manufacturers in the UK While you watch consider the following points:
- Whose fault is Child Labour on these farms?
- Should it be the big companies such as Cadbury and Nestle that sort the problem of Child Labour? Should we boycott the companies?
- What do you think of the Child Labour logo suggested in the programme?
- How do you think the money being invested over the next 10 years should be spent to combat the problem?
Task: Write a paragraph as a response to the programme, including your thoughts on what you have seen, and comments on the key points above.
