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CNN Asks 'How Ethical Is Your Easter Basket?'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/04/04/cnn-asks-how-ethical-your-easter-basket ^

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.


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Oh, great. So now if we eat or drink anything with chocolate in it, we're responsible for causing child slavery.
1 posted on 04/05/2012 6:10:54 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Someone should ask the CNN staff how ‘ethical’ their daily Star-buck’s Frappacino is!


2 posted on 04/05/2012 6:14:39 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: chessplayer

Well Ms. Malveaux.. if you don’t want chocolate in your Easter basket... don’t eat it. Beyond that, it’s not your business.


3 posted on 04/05/2012 6:15:12 AM PDT by ScottinVA (A single drop of American blood for muslims is one drop too many!)
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To: chessplayer

Of course, this regime believes teens working on family farms are subjected to a form of “slavery” as well.


4 posted on 04/05/2012 6:16:26 AM PDT by ScottinVA (A single drop of American blood for muslims is one drop too many!)
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To: chessplayer

Chocolate or no chocolate Africa and every country in it is an unmitigated sh*t-hole for 90% of its population.

Think about that the next time Reverends Al and Jesse are demanding reparations.

Would they rather not have grown up in America?

I’m not defending pre-Civil War slavery, I’m just saying what no one wants to talk about: African Americans should kiss the ground they walk on (as should we all) that they are not in their sh*t-hole ancestral homes.


5 posted on 04/05/2012 6:18:36 AM PDT by samtheman
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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.


6 posted on 04/05/2012 6:20:22 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: chessplayer

Oh Brother... here we go!

These people really have issues


7 posted on 04/05/2012 6:21:16 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Anyone But Obama in November !!!)
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To: chessplayer

OK...that’s it! I’m convinced! Having seen the light,courtesy of CNN,I officially declare myself to be an atheist.


8 posted on 04/05/2012 6:21:40 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter Is No Longer The Worst President To Have Served In My Lifetime.)
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To: chessplayer

One final thought on this story:

How Christian is an Easter basket? What does an Easter basket really have to do with the meaning of Easter at all?


9 posted on 04/05/2012 6:21:58 AM PDT by samtheman
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What is the predominant religion in these regions? Oh yeah, the Religion of Peace ..... meanwhile, WE are the ones who are supposed to wring our hands with grief.

There is only 1 religion in the world who still believes and practices slavery .... and it’s Islam.


10 posted on 04/05/2012 6:22:06 AM PDT by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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I saw this report.

Talk about about a bunch of feel-good lib tripe.

11 posted on 04/05/2012 6:22:06 AM PDT by wbill
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To: chessplayer

“ethical” - secularist defined “morals”, subject to change, of course, if they don’t fit the current agenda.


12 posted on 04/05/2012 6:22:28 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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Of course, this regime believes teens working on family farms are subjected to a form of “slavery” as well.

Actually, that's kind of what the kids in the "report" looked like to me.

13 posted on 04/05/2012 6:24:30 AM PDT by wbill
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To: chessplayer

If I wash the chocolate down with Pepsi,am I absolved?


14 posted on 04/05/2012 6:26:10 AM PDT by Makana
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To: chessplayer

http://www.dambisamoyo.com/books/?book=dead-aid


15 posted on 04/05/2012 6:26:57 AM PDT by samtheman
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CNN Asks 'How Ethical Is Your Easter Basket?

I ask: How ethical is your news "reporting"?

16 posted on 04/05/2012 6:28:18 AM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: chessplayer

But Hershey chocolates are made in Mexico. Do we want to put them out of work?


17 posted on 04/05/2012 6:28:45 AM PDT by AU72
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To: chessplayer
How Ethical Is Your Easter Basket ?

             

18 posted on 04/05/2012 6:28:45 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: samtheman

http://www.amazon.com/The-Poor-Will-Glad-Revolution/dp/0310293596


19 posted on 04/05/2012 6:29:39 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: chessplayer

Earth to CNN, when you start reporting about the most inhumane society and religion on the planet (can you spell ISLAM?), we might start thinking you’ve got at least 1/2 room temp IQ.

Until then, shove it up your collective septic, smelly very big Obamas,


20 posted on 04/05/2012 6:30:27 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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