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    The document discusses slavery in the chocolate industry in Ivory Coast. It identifies systemic issues such as poorly enforced laws allowing slavery and declining cocoa prices forcing farmers to cut costs through slavery. It also notes corporate issues like middlemen aware of slavery and individual issues such as kidnapping and trafficking children for slave labor. The author believes slavery, especially of children, can never be ethical and that farmers, government, chocolate companies, and aware individuals all have moral responsibility to address this problem. The document also notes laws do not necessarily reflect ethics as laws are made by those in power while ethics consider subjective views of acceptable treatment of people.

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    The document discusses slavery in the chocolate industry in Ivory Coast. It identifies systemic issues such as poorly enforced laws allowing slavery and declining cocoa prices forcing farmers to cut costs through slavery. It also notes corporate issues like middlemen aware of slavery and individual issues such as kidnapping and trafficking children for slave labor. The author believes slavery, especially of children, can never be ethical and that farmers, government, chocolate companies, and aware individuals all have moral responsibility to address this problem. The document also notes laws do not necessarily reflect ethics as laws are made by those in power while ethics consider subjective views of acceptable treatment of people.

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    The document discusses slavery in the chocolate industry in Ivory Coast. It identifies systemic issues such as poorly enforced laws allowing slavery and declining cocoa prices forcing farmers to cut costs through slavery. It also notes corporate issues like middlemen aware of slavery and individual issues such as kidnapping and trafficking children for slave labor. The author believes slavery, especially of children, can never be ethical and that farmers, government, chocolate companies, and aware individuals all have moral responsibility to address this problem. The document also notes laws do not necessarily reflect ethics as laws are made by those in power while ethics consider subjective views of acceptable treatment of people.

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    Case 1 - Slavery in The Chocolate Industry

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    The document discusses slavery in the chocolate industry in Ivory Coast. It identifies systemic issues such as poorly enforced laws allowing slavery and declining cocoa prices forcing farmers to cut costs through slavery. It also notes corporate issues like middlemen aware of slavery and individual issues such as kidnapping and trafficking children for slave labor. The author believes slavery, especially of children, can never be ethical and that farmers, government, chocolate companies, and aware individuals all have moral responsibility to address this problem. The document also notes laws do not necessarily reflect ethics as laws are made by those in power while ethics consider subjective views of acceptable treatment of people.

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    BUSINESS ETHICS CASE ASSIGNMENT

    Slavery in the Chocolate Industry

    Imanda Mulia Rahman 361168

    1. This case about slavery in chocolate industry raised systematic,


    corporate and individual ethical issues.
    Systemic
    Related to legal aspects, slavery is illegal in Ivory Coast and the law is
    poorly enforced. Open borders, a shortage of enforcement officers,
    and the willingness of local officials to accept bribes from people
    trafficking in slaves, all contribute to the problem. In addition, prices
    for cocoa beans in global markets have been declined since 1996. As
    the prices declined, farmers turned to slavery to cut labor cost for the
    survival in this situation.
    Corporate
    Farmers rely on middlemen to get their cocoa to market. Middlemen
    are the one who grind and process cocoa beans they acquire from the
    Ivory Coast and sell the product to manufacturers. So, middlemen
    aware of the slavery labor problem. Later on, due to media attention
    and antislavery group activities, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin and U.S.
    Representative Eliot Engel, the members of the Chocolate
    Manufacturers Association and the World Cocoa Foundation, together
    with several human rights groups and the Ivory Coast agreed to
    establish a system of verification. However they still cannot control
    over anything because there are 1 million cocoa farms that located in
    remote local regions.
    Individual
    First thing first, kidnapping kids and trafficking them as slavery and
    making them work from sunrise to sunset as well as beating and
    starving them are definitely immorally wrong and indeed illegal. And
    also for anyone from companies to consumers, any individual who
    knows the problem should not just walk away and ignore.
    2. In my opinion, there is no way to accept any kind of slavery, especially
    child slavery. To me, slavery was never ethical. Slavery involves the
    ownership of a human being as a chattel. Slavery involves the loss of
    freedom, for the most basic human needs, where to be, what to do, and
    who to be and be with, and has often included many abuse activities. I
    cannot imagine any circumstances of slavery, especially child slavery,
    could be considered ethical.
    3. There are some parties who should have taken moral responsibilities for
    the slavery occurring in this case. First, the African farmers who are the
    ones who use child slavery labor. Second, African government who is in
    charge of rules and regulation. Third, American chocolate companies that
    know and aware of the use of slavery labor and decide to continue to
    work them. Last but not least, anyone who knows about this problem has
    a responsible.
    4. Laws are rules that are enacted by human beings with political agendas
    and cultural views of acceptable behavior. However, laws may or may not
    confirm to what is viewed as ethically acceptable. So basically, laws
    reflect the views of those who have political power to make and enforce
    rules and ethics is a subjective view of how one should treat other
    people. It is wrong to perceive the laws and ethics as identical.

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