To: The United States House of Representatives
Letstopslavery
Everyone in the developed World enjoys the proceeds of slavery almost on a daily basis. Who cares about who produce their coffee beans? Who cares about who harvest tea leaves? Who cares who produce cocoa beans? Who cares who tap the rubber for our car wheels?
We are all guilty of employing slaves whether we know it or not. William Wilberforce did not end slave trade but he changed the nature of it.
We are all guilty of employing slaves whether we know it or not. William Wilberforce did not end slave trade but he changed the nature of it.
Why is this important?
I started harvesting coffee bean from the age of 4 and my grandfather had been doing so for 75 years but was not able to purchase a cup of coffee. My cousins who lived further South of Cameroon unlike me from the Savannah North were equally harvesting cocoa beans since they were 3 years old. I drank my first cup of coffee when I was 25 years old and had moved to Europe and my cousin ate his first chocolate bar when he was 27 years old and had moved to the US. Why can Cameroon and other African countries not grind their coffee and cocoa beans into powder? Because the WTO Clause bars them from doing so and it is the intention of this petition to force those players at the WTO to realise that the WTO is the worst violator of fundamental Human Rights.