My Class of Religious Education Had An Interview With "Ritter Sport"

Did you know that "Nestle", "Hanuta", "Mars Incorperated" and "Duplo" on the contrary use child-laborers on their cocoa-plantations? "GEO" the magazine says that often these children hurt themselves while cutting the cocoa-beans or fall gravely ill due to all the pesticides they get into contact on these plantations. In fact these pesticides are so toxic that some of them are even illegal to use in many industrial countries.

Dear user of this website,

I thank you so much for taking your time to comment on this blog and I really appreciate that. Not only was your information very true and useful – I'm not that much into technology and thus I couldn't provide people with as much detailed technological information as you did -, but I'm also sure your comment attracted many users. Thank you!

I'm sorry for not replying earlier, but I just wanted to wait until I could add some more information concerning chocolate to my thanks: Now it's officially Christmas time and many people buy Advent calendars – some for themselves, but most for their children. Often these calendars contain cheap chocolate and nowhere on this calendar does it say that this is a fair trade product. Both – the price and the lack of a logo - imply that perhaps child-laborers were used to produce this.

Did you know that decades ago parents had a much easier moral decision when it came to buying an Advent calendar for their children? “Domradio” says that back then these little doors on the calendar simply contained pretty pictures...or straw. Yes, straw! Each day the child was allowed to put one straw into the crib where on Christmas Eve the statue of baby-Jesus would lie. This way the children felt very important as they thought they were responsible for having the statue have a comfortable place on Christmas. Both Advent calendars that contained pictures and those that contained straw brought a lot of joy to children back then. They were just as happy as those kids who today get a calendar that contains chocolate.

I hope to hear more from you in the near future.

Yours sincerely,

Doris Schlapansky

Just to have something to compare this to: Today the newspaper "Stern" published an article according to which dehydration is a common cause of death in many African countries, since they just don't have much water due to geological reasons and Nestlé - just to give you an example - makes everything worse. This article claims that companies like Nestlé deliberately get their water from countries where water is rare, because that will push up the prize of their products. After all rare things just are expensive - even though that doesn't make their quality better. Probably the quality of their products even would be better if they took their water from Europe or North-America. The easiest thing to do would be to simply boycott Nestlé or to send a complaint-letter to them. Maybe demonstrations would help too, but that firstly is illegal in some countries and secondly could be very dangerous, since it's hard to control a whole mob of people.

Even though I left school about two and a half years ago and even though this has nothing to do with Rittersport, this kind of fits in here:

"Schokofair" is an aid-organization that helps by informing people about the issue of child laborers used to produce our chocolate. Now that Christmas is coming soon and everyone firstly is bussy buying all kinds of Christmas-related sweeties and secondly wants to do something to make poor people have a nice Christmas, too, it is the perfect time for telling people about the children used to produce these sweeties. As it seems we both agree on that and thus...

>they posted a new article on their homepage just a few days ago. It says that many of these underage laborers neither do this voluntarily nor were they sold by their families, but it happens in a lot of cases that children get kidnapped from their homes and then are sold to cacao plants that are so far away that even if they could escape, they firstly would get lost and secondly would lack the physical strength to walk home without any supplies at all as well as the money needed to buy some proviant or even a bus or train ticket for the journey. Thus you should always control the cacao-products you buy and search for labels that indicate a fair trade product.

>In early December "Schokofair" will hold a presentation on the "Schoko-Fest" in Tübingen as a placard I saw when I took the bus today indicates. Apart from this presentation they will also sell fair trade chocolate there. I'm going to go there!

Wow! Thank you for this clue!

Hey,

It is really a nice blog and worthy of reading.

As about the technical problem, you can copy the blog to a Microsoft Word file, and you can edit it as you like, for example you can make the font

BIG

or

SMALL

or change the type of the font.

I have notice that only the blog that you can do such a thing, I mean you can't do the same if you post a new thread, only in a blog or a comment to a blog, like my this comment.

So when I want to post a new blog, first I write it in Microsoft Word and I edit as I like and then I paste it in the blog window.

Good luck.

Dear Madam,

Thank you! May God protect you, too.

Have a nice day!

                                 Yours faithfully,

                                                        Dorothee

God with you in everything you do :)

Take care

I apologize, but I seriously don't know what happened to the writing of this text. It must have been a technical problem-perhaps caused by me.