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where chocolate comes from?
Chocolate is made from cacao beans.
(の平均して), and more than 70 percent are from Ghana.
In West Africa, cacao farmers are verv poor because their cacao beans are sonv
low prices. Therefore, many parents cannot send their children to school. Also,
often make their children work on cacao farms to help them.
(Oによれば) UNICEF, ( ④の数) such children is about 50,000. Moreover, しn
children working on the farms do heavy physical labor.
twenty-kilogram baskets full of cacao beans on their heads all day long.
A(6解決法) to this ( ®間題 ) is the fair trade system. This ( ©新しい) systeIn
Is based on partnership between producers and companies that buy their cacao beans.
It guarantees a minimum price for the beans, so the trading conditions are better 101
poor famers. This ( ®許す ) them to receive a higher income and improve their lives.
(O結果として), their children do not need to work on the farms and can go to school.
(O消費者)also play an important ( ①役割 ) in the fair trade system. It offers
them a way to reduce ( ®銭困) through everyday shopping. Fair trade products are
usually labeled with a fair trade mark.
and sometimes even at convenience stores.
shopping can make a difference. When you buy chocolate next time, you should give a
little more thought to its bitter truth.
For example, they carry
Therefore, you can find them easily at shops,
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