- Signatures: 285
- Goal: 100
- Deadline: 3-19-2004
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As many as 200,000 West African children a year are being sold into slavery in order to work cacao plantations. Cacao is the raw material for chocolate and cocoa. Almost 40% of chocolate produced is made from cacao that was produced by child slavery. For as little as $15 US dollars, parents are selling their children into slavery, often misled to believe that their children will be receiving a better life through education and jobs. Instead, children are being subjected to harsh lives as field hands, domestic workers, and even prostitutes. They are living in cruel, squalid, and impovrished conditions.
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | Age | Gender | City | State | Why am I signing this petition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 285 | 4:46 pm PST, Nov 6 | Anonymous | 16 | Female | Costa Mesa | California | Because it is wrong to exploit children to achieve a higher profit. | |
| 284 | 6:21 am PDT, Oct 18 | Kym Shepard | 0 | Female | Ellenwood | Georgia | As much as I love chocolate I am willing to give it up until I find company's that use slave free chocolate. I will pass this information to everyone on my mailing list. This slavery must stop! | |
| 283 | 4:02 pm PDT, Oct 6 | Mr. | kevin jenkins | 40 | Male | baton rouge | Louisiana | Because I believe the rape and torture of all indegious people MUST STOP!! If AFRICA dies the world will DIE!!!!! |
| 282 | 9:43 pm PDT, Oct 4 | Carmen p | 0 | Female | Brisbane | |||
| 281 | 4:16 pm PDT, Sep 7 | Lori Liddell | 47 | Female | Warrens | Wisconsin | I will no longer buy any chocolate products unless I believe them to be slavery free. | |
| 280 | 3:40 pm PDT, Mar 30 | shannon peel | 34 | Female | Calgary | Giving Up Chocolate - Don't want to support this type of business practice, if big businesses in the states won't stand up and stop it then I don't want their products. Every child should be given a chance to contribute to society in a positive and healthy manner | ||
| 279 | 9:31 am PST, Mar 3 | Ms. | Julia Ulmer | 28 | Female | Gardner | Kansas | |
| 278 | 7:42 am PST, Mar 2 | Ms. | Annalisa Lopez | 14 | Female | McAllen | Texas | These children need help. |
| 277 | 8:13 pm PST, Feb 26 | Ms. | brigid mcdonnell | 16 | Female | melbourne | I'm not going to igore this problem. | |
| 276 | 4:58 pm PST, Feb 18 | sata bongoy | 0 | Female | Fort-Lauderdale | Florida | No child should be enslaved and deprived of his or her innocence. These transnational corporations may think they are untouchable and even scoff at us petitioners, but God sees and He will vindicate all these abused children. | |
| 275 | 5:51 pm PST, Jan 12 | Elizabeth Higgs | 0 | Female | Edmonton | |||
| 274 | 5:49 pm PST, Jan 12 | Mr. | Michael Fowler | 15 | Male | Edmonton | ||
| 273 | 5:48 pm PST, Jan 12 | Ms. | Natasha Pena | 17 | Female | kissimmee | Florida | Because its wrong, those children getting hit and not doing anything . Them being deprived from life for candy. |
| 272 | 12:49 pm PST, Dec 29 | Mrs. | barbara bockner | 54 | Female | Phoenix | Arizona | It is wrong sick and deprpaved and uturly inhumane to have a human slave a child no less I as a christian am sick and want to do something. |
| 271 | 1:31 pm PST, Dec 11 | Ms. | Anonymous | 23 | Female | Tacoma | Washington | I think its wrong for parents to place such heavy expectations upon their child's shoulders. they're supposed to provide for their children not the otherway around. It's even worse when thet're placing their childs worth at less than a couple of dollars! |
| 270 | 7:52 am PDT, Aug 18 | Ms. | Srishti Kapoor | 19 | Female | Mumbai | ||
| 269 | 2:33 pm PDT, Aug 8 | rowan seets | 13 | Female | APO | its wrong | ||
| 268 | 2:12 am PDT, Jul 16 | Ms. | Anonymous | 18 | Female | Washington D.C | We are drinking the blood of children under 10 years of age. Not the coffee we believe it is... | |
| 267 | 4:02 pm PDT, Jun 17 | Ms. | rena law | 44 | Female | Phoenix | Arizona | |
| 266 | 5:32 pm PDT, May 21 | Ms. | Melissa Geraci | 27 | Female | Buchanan | Michigan | I believe that chocolate can only be truly enjoyed when it isn't produced in cruel circumstances. |
| 265 | 6:21 pm PDT, May 15 | Mr. | Justus Rumbley | 15 | Male | Asheboro | North Carolina | Child slavery is wrong. |
| 264 | 2:48 pm PDT, May 14 | Ms. | Theresa Kelly | 26 | Female | Richfield | Minnesota | |
| 263 | 10:17 am PDT, May 14 | Ms. | Ginger Geronimo | 30 | Female | Birmingham | Alabama | The way those children are being treated isn't right. Someone needs to do something. |
| 262 | 3:18 pm PDT, May 6 | Greg Hayes | 0 | Male | Austin | Texas | Because it is the right thing to do and no true Christian can stand by and continue to allow this to occur! | |
| 261 | 12:29 pm PDT, May 4 | Mrs. | Patricia Nigro | 66 | Female | Deltona | Florida | |
| 260 | 9:38 pm PDT, May 2 | Stephanie Henry | 14 | Female | Windsor | California | Because it's right | |
| 259 | 9:29 am PDT, May 1 | Barbara Schiano | 47 | Female | New York | New York | ||
| 258 | 7:05 pm PDT, Apr 30 | Ms. | Anonymous | 18 | Female | Austin | Texas | Because I want Africa to be a better place, and I want to make a change! |
| 257 | 5:09 pm PDT, Apr 28 | Ms. | Rebecca Elliott | 14 | Female | Port Orange | Florida | This issue is completely an underground thing and should be known to the world. It's wrong and immoral and should be stopped. |
| 256 | 12:00 pm PDT, Apr 25 | Mrs. | Joyce Gibbs | 66 | Female | Schenectady | New York | |
| 255 | 10:22 pm PDT, Apr 16 | Natalie Macias | 18 | Female | whittier | California | I feel that no one has the right to take freedom from another human beaing. | |
| 254 | 4:54 pm PDT, Apr 12 | angela strehlen | 0 | Female | new westminster | I hate Starbucks... | ||
| 253 | 4:47 pm PDT, Apr 12 | Ms. | Marcella McAlarnen | 18 | Female | Silver Spring | Maryland | |
| 252 | 12:47 pm PDT, Apr 7 | Mrs. | Mels Whe | 28 | Female | Starksboro | Vermont | |
| 251 | 8:33 pm PDT, Apr 6 | Anonymous | 0 | Female | detroit | Michigan | to better others lives...this is unfair treatment and no one deserves to live like this.....especially innocent children....i am a child myself so i understand how much this is effecting those kids.....it needs to stop ...now. |
Help stop child slavery in Africa
Dear Hershey's Food Corporation,
We the undersigned feel that, as being the #1 producer of chocolate in the United States, that your corporation should take measures to ensure that the cacao beans that you purchase are not grown by using child slavery. Please develop means to end this cruel cycle that is hurting countless children.
We the undersigned feel that, as being the #1 producer of chocolate in the United States, that your corporation should take measures to ensure that the cacao beans that you purchase are not grown by using child slavery. Please develop means to end this cruel cycle that is hurting countless children.
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