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Get Hershey to End Its Harmful Child Labor Practices ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
World  (tags: humans, children, labor, suffering, environment, protection, humanrights )

Cher
- 600 days ago - forcechange.com
Of the 8 chocolate companies that signed the Harkin-Engel Protocol in 2001, a protocol designed to eliminate the "worst forms of child labor," Hershey's remains the only chocolate company to continue to employ child labor in its supply chain. In 2001,
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Nyack Clancy (1670)
Monday October 3, 2011, 6:22 am
signed- thank you
 

Regina P. (79)
Monday October 3, 2011, 8:35 am
noted & signed. thanks
 

Birgitta S. (149)
Monday October 3, 2011, 9:00 am
signed. TY
 

Toni A. (188)
Monday October 3, 2011, 9:37 am
signed..I don't know why I can't note....
 

Sanja T. (154)
Monday October 3, 2011, 10:48 am
noted... and signed
 

Chris R. (71)
Monday October 3, 2011, 11:50 am
Thanks Cher, done!~
 

Dawn G. (23)
Monday October 3, 2011, 12:04 pm
Signed.
 

Natalie T. (71)
Monday October 3, 2011, 12:28 pm
Noted and signed, thanks Cher.
 

Lisa Neste (529)
Monday October 3, 2011, 12:39 pm
Done, thanks.
 

Svetlana B. (61)
Monday October 3, 2011, 1:19 pm
Done
 

Joe R. (161)
Monday October 3, 2011, 2:39 pm
Signed.
 

Olivia S. (152)
Monday October 3, 2011, 2:45 pm
Done, thanks Cher. I have always tried to buy American and always bought Hershey chocolate...until they closed down their plant in Hershey PA and moved to Mexico..and now another good reason to boycott them.
 

Michela M. (2994)
Monday October 3, 2011, 3:20 pm
SIGNED and Noted!! Thanks, Ciao!!
 

BarbKnight SunshinecatLady (1489)
Monday October 3, 2011, 3:27 pm
Signed! So sad to see a child in the 3rd world being forced to work...sadly noted. Thnx Cher ;(
 

Jason Green (211)
Monday October 3, 2011, 3:27 pm
signed thank you
 

Val R. (142)
Monday October 3, 2011, 4:29 pm
Noted and signed - thanks
 

Carol H. (215)
Monday October 3, 2011, 5:19 pm
signed and noted
 

Jennifer C. (154)
Monday October 3, 2011, 5:20 pm
Noted. Thanks.
 

Past Member (0)
Monday October 3, 2011, 5:48 pm
signed and noted
 

Kenny V. (173)
Monday October 3, 2011, 6:16 pm
Thanks Cher and Oliva, i didn't know they left PA for Mexico?I went there as a little kid, think i was looking for oompa loompas? Glad i didn't see one , would of been a slave baby.... I only have chocolate very rarely and only from vegan fair trade sources.Gladly signed and sadly boycotted.
 

Kathy Javens (104)
Monday October 3, 2011, 6:17 pm
Signed,noted and posted on FB.
 

Past Member (0)
Monday October 3, 2011, 6:33 pm
Signed and noted.
 

Paula H. (48)
Monday October 3, 2011, 7:23 pm
noted and signed with thanks....I have not and will not buy any Hershey's products since they moved to Mexico, I now only use organic, fair trade chocolate.
 

Erin R. (125)
Monday October 3, 2011, 7:28 pm
signed
 

Dandelion G. (357)
Monday October 3, 2011, 9:11 pm
Hershey, is in the news so much for terrible labor practices. I ran a story not too long ago of horrible working conditions in a factory here in the usa. Seems like no matter what end of the chain of a hershey product they are exploiting workers, but to exploit children is the lowest of low.
 

Unnikrishnan Sasidharan (32)
Monday October 3, 2011, 11:44 pm
~Done
 

Penni Norman (362)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 12:48 am
Noted and signed. Thank you, Cher.
 

Apolonia P. (374)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 1:33 am
Signed...
 

Jon T. (59)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 2:36 am
A couple of years the UK's biggest chocolate company (Cadbury's) made it's highest profile bar (Dairy Milk) Fairtrade (and is now rolling this out around the world) - this is the sort of leadership Hershey should be following. Sadly Cadbury was recently bought up by Kraft and we fear Kraft sending it down to the bottom with other US companies.
 

Ana Marija Rumbak (193)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 4:47 am
S@N with hope...
thank you, Cher!
 

Esther Z. (83)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 5:17 am
Noted and signed.
 

G M. (211)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 7:49 am
Let's hope it works this time.
 

alicia m. (98)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 8:25 am
noted, signed, shared, gracias
 

Judy B. (93)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 8:50 am
Signed, thanks.
 

A M A. (112)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 11:58 am
Already signed, thank you Cher!! Sharing @ Slavery Today abolition group news list at
http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=24162&pst=1318207
 

A M A. (112)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 12:02 pm
I see our member Alicia has already shared the story on our thread! :-) Please join us at Slavery Today and share any news, information, petitions, and other actions to take related to modern day slavery and exploitation. Thanks again Cher!
 

Ruth McD (653)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 1:38 pm
Noted and signed. So sad people use children, and don't even care. Thx Cher.
 

Suzanne H. (56)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 1:45 pm
Cheap child labor becomes adult cheap labor................Stand Up!
 

Susan S. (188)
Tuesday October 4, 2011, 1:50 pm
We need to work to end systemic poverty all over the globe. If there were no poverty there would be no exploitation of children.
 

Elizabeth Brawn (8)
Saturday October 8, 2011, 11:15 am
noted and signed...............please buy fairtrade always
 

Stella Nobrega-Garcia (4)
Thursday October 13, 2011, 12:18 pm
Noted and signed.
 

Ira M. (203)
Tuesday November 8, 2011, 7:35 am
Signed and noted. Thank you!
 
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