The Dark side of Chocolate

In Social Studies I and my class were watching a documentary about The Dark Side of Chocolate. The documentary is about a Journalist whom investigates child trafficking in the Ivory Coast and show how it fuels the worldwide chocolate industry. Throughout the video, we got to learn more about how cocoa beans were produced or made. It was really sad getting to know that children were being manipulated to work for there company.

The issue going on in the documentary was that people were abducting children out of there homes or down the street. These so-called people were a part of child trafficking. The whole child labour or child trafficking were located across Africa in Ivory coast. This is affecting the children because they are being taken away from there homes. This is also affecting the local communities because now they feel like they are being trapped in a world where people around Africa are abducting kids out of nowhere.

Why is this happening? I personally think that this whole child trafficking is happening because many business companies are taking kids to make them work for them to get more money/profits. The different perspectives on this issue are that the investigators want to find out why this has to happen in a particular place and that they are wanting to find out why child trafficking still exist. The investigators found this 1 man that saved 150 children that were being abducted by people who were wanting to take them. He saved about 40 - 90 boys aged 11 - 17 and about 37 girls aged 13 - 15.  My opinion on this issue is that they don't have the right to be forced as slaves. Children's rights are being taken away.