I bet starving kids in Ethiopia dont like chocolate for they would have prefered subsistence food, if Nestle had not taken over their lands.
choco and coffee plants drain all the nutrients found in soil. So its very hard to grow other plants on them after de-planting them, for at least 4 or 5 years. Huge companies like Nestle buy millions of acres of land all around the world, most of the time help the warlords drive the native tribes off the lands (an example is France and Belgium, supporting the Hutus and then the Tutsi in Rwanda -it went on like Hutu-Tutsi-Hutu and Tutsi again for a few rounds. They establish trade relations with the surviving tribe and start sucking their lands, make them pass privatization laws and encourage them to sell those areas to themselves. (Mitterand gave his personal plane to a Rwandian leader (Habyarimana) as a gift for eg.) So when Rwanda decides to get interational loans for delivering water to people that are dying in the middle of nowhere, all French and Belgian banks are closed. Ofcourse, until they decide to plant more coffee and chocolate plants. Not yet over, France, where people talk about “liberte, egalite and fraternite” has forced Haiti, a starving nation to pay an indemnity of 90 million golden francs in the year 1825, after kidnapping their governor (which is a diplomatic scandal). Why did france demand reparation? Because Haiti was the first slave colony that revolted and succeeded, and banned slavery. This ofcourse made the French slave trading companies go bankrupt. The USA, the land of the free, feared what the now-free-citizens of Haiti achieved and helped the french, banned Haitian ships and etc. What’s disgusting is France has not annuled the indemnity. Thus, the honest, starving nation of Haiti, saved from their plates to pay the money to the French until the 1950s!!! (Thats about the same time the French started to arm the Rwandian tribes and the motto “egalite, fraternite and liberte started to sound stale). 90 million golden francs (used for the Napoleonic wars' costs) equals to 21 Billion EUROS! Choco, Coca and coffee also has a story in South America but that’s another story.
id rather have chewy, fruity candy like skittles rather than chocolate. unless its like chocolates covered strawberries or cherries....or turtles or anything with caramel........mmmh
