Posted on 04/05/2012 6:10:51 AM PDT by chessplayer
Four days before the holiest time of the year for Christians, CNN.com actually asked, "How ethical is your Easter basket?"
This was the headline for the video of a CNN Newsroom segment Wednesday about child slaves being used to harvest cocoa in West Africa.
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: All right. So before you start buying the Easter chocolate this weekend, something you should consider, is it contributing to child slavery. Turns out that most of the world's cocoa fields are in West Africa. Hundreds of thousands of children are forced to work in those fields. David Mattingly takes us to one of the farms in Ivory Coast.
Someone should ask the CNN staff how ‘ethical’ their daily Star-buck’s Frappacino is!
Little surprise that this article did not come out at Halloween?
As opposed to what? Going to school and taking the summers off to go to summer camp???? Earth to CNN: Africa is a poor, miserable place. While I wish all children could grow up in a loving, care-free environment, that ain't gonna happen in these dirt-poor countries. Kids start working as soon as they can. That is the way the world is.
We’re overdue for our annual Holy Week story about some priest sex abuse dredged up from 30 years ago or some other “reminder” about how awful Christianity is.
Interesting that the indirect connection between Christianity and African slavery is highlighted by the leftists but the DIRECT PRACTISE OF OWNING ACTUAL BLACK SLAVES in Muslim-controlled Africa is never mentioned by these commie leftist slugs.
Yes, of course, colonialism. I failed to mention colonialism. And of course you are right. The muzzies can raze na Black African village, kill all the adult males, take all the women and children into slavery... and the leftist pr*cks in America in Europe will wring their hands about the “legacy of colonialism”.
How about the legacy of the Koran?
Liberals never feel-good unless they they are fretting about some feel-bad story.
We’re overdue for our annual Holy Week story about some priest sex abuse dredged up from 30 years ago or some other “reminder” about how awful Christianity is.
And, is it too much to ask the kill-joy libs to stay the hell out of the holidays that are all about candy --> Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter ?
Please don't anyone report me to CNN or PETA.
Leni
CNN needs to go just a little deeper into Easter to find that the word does not appear in the New Testament, and in fact the early Church did not observe it. They observed the Passover.
Easter was forced on the Church by coercion of capital punishment by government, specifically by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325. So, while Christians rightly complain about the moral implications of allowing government to seize control of their health care, they are going off to Easter Sunday services that has its theological basis in a political expediency of a long-dead Roman Emperor.
I’d rather not buy chocolate that is produced by slave labor.
I also prefer to buy American rather than Chinese when possible because of ethical qualms about labor, copyrights and untrustworthy ingredients.
Maybe the report was annoying in tone (I didn’t see it), but I don’t have a problem with the basic idea of buying “ethical” chocolate. Of course, if it’s like ethical coffee, they don’t provide as good a quality beans because they know people are buying it to feel noble, not for the best taste.
I looked into the Chocolate thing a few years ago and found that chocolate from Guinea does not have a slave labor problem because it is a former British colony with a different history of this industry than its neighbors. (The article I read didn’t say it was because of Christianity, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that were the case.)
The company I found that got its cocoa powder from Guinea was Cadbury, so I included Cadbury mini-eggs in our Easter baskets. Now, I understand that Cadbury is owned by Hershey? So that may or may not affect where they currently get their cocoa powder.
We still use Cadbury, but there is also Nestle, Hershey, Dove and Lindt mixed in there. It’s not a perfect world, but on Easter it is a sweet one. : )
It's okay with me, as long as I get my chocolate covered Resse's Peanut Butter Easter eggs. Now if yu'll excuse me, I'm going for a nice long drive in my SUV so I can contribute to global wamring.
I’m all for child slavery. Keeps the little miscreants off the street.
Let’s all quit eating chocolate, so the kids won’t have a job, and the family won’t have an income. Let’s starve them, so liberals won’t feel so bad us eating candy.
I got you beat, I only buy chocolate praying hands or crosses.
A guy gets on a long-distance flight. He’s just getting comfortable when somebody sits down next to him. He looks up and wow, it’s Garry Kasparov. Kasparov basks for a moment in the recognition. Some way into the flight, the meals are cleared away and Garry produces an elegant little wooden travel chess set. He begins to play. After a while Kasparov asks the guy whether he would like to play chess to kill time. The guy replies, “Hey Garry, You think I don’t know who you are? I can’t compete with a world champion.” Kasparov replies, “’How about if I play left handed?” The guy thinks about this for a minute, then agrees. He is demolished in 8 moves, and is inconsolable for the rest of the journey. On landing he meets his friend, who asks him how the flight was. “It was terrible,” he says. “Completely humiliating. I played chess with Garry Kasparov and he beat me in spite of him playing left-handed!” His friend replies - “Ha! You were swindled! Dude, Garry Kasparov is left-handed!!”
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I think the Easter basket is a lot like the Easter dinner. If one has been abstaining from candy or meat or whatever for the 6 weeks of Lent, then those foods are reintroduced on Easter as a celebration of the risen Savior. Certainly, the practices aren’t grounded in solid Christian theology, they are symbolic.
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