Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Chocolate anyone?
Sometimes I hate reading...because it means I'm going to have to change something. This is the latest book I'm reading:
Well, it's pretty convicting...and I already hate that my consumeristic, materialistic, and greedy lifestyle as an American shopper is so pervasive and darn hard to kick...aaahhh...well, this book just kicks that into overdrive by reminding me that my daily decisions have global impact.
Today, it's chocolate. So that chocolate chip cookie I just ate with my daughter most likely was produced in part on the backs of children slaving with no rest when they should be eating chocolate chip cookies with their mothers. Doing more research, I found that basically, if I recognize the maker of the chocolate I'm buying, they most likely use cocoa beans produced in Ivory Coast, and, therefore, are tainted by child slavery. Soooo...I guess I'll be buying my chocolate from the internet from now on. Darn-it. I'm going to admit it...I'm lazy and I LOVE chocolate...not being able to get it from the local, easy to use, grocery store will suck. But not as much as the lives of those kids far away suck...so I'll suck it up for that fact alone.
See here Is There Slavery in Your Chocolate and here Stop Chocolate Slavery for more information. Or read the book I'm reading if you want...I'll loan it out so you can endure self-recrimination like me. (BTW...I can't figure out the hyperlink thing and don't want to try at the moment, so just copy and paste.)
Well, it's pretty convicting...and I already hate that my consumeristic, materialistic, and greedy lifestyle as an American shopper is so pervasive and darn hard to kick...aaahhh...well, this book just kicks that into overdrive by reminding me that my daily decisions have global impact.
Today, it's chocolate. So that chocolate chip cookie I just ate with my daughter most likely was produced in part on the backs of children slaving with no rest when they should be eating chocolate chip cookies with their mothers. Doing more research, I found that basically, if I recognize the maker of the chocolate I'm buying, they most likely use cocoa beans produced in Ivory Coast, and, therefore, are tainted by child slavery. Soooo...I guess I'll be buying my chocolate from the internet from now on. Darn-it. I'm going to admit it...I'm lazy and I LOVE chocolate...not being able to get it from the local, easy to use, grocery store will suck. But not as much as the lives of those kids far away suck...so I'll suck it up for that fact alone.
See here Is There Slavery in Your Chocolate and here Stop Chocolate Slavery for more information. Or read the book I'm reading if you want...I'll loan it out so you can endure self-recrimination like me. (BTW...I can't figure out the hyperlink thing and don't want to try at the moment, so just copy and paste.)
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