Greed

 Dear insansapinas,

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Bakit kailangang pahirapan ang mga naghihirap na para lang madagdagan ang yaman ng mga mayayaman na?

Maraming namatay sa CDO flashflood dahil sa illegal logging.

Ngayon naman ay balak bunutin at replant ang mga puno sa Baguio para mapatayuan ang lugar ng shopping mall.

Kahit itanim ulit ang puno, kaunti lang ang nabubuhay, Alam naman nating ang ugat ng mga puno ang humahadlang sa pagkatibag ng lupa na maaring madala ng malakas na ulan pababa.

Tree Replanting

Reaction naman ng  SM:

MANILA, Philippines - Contrary to reports, the SM Group reiterated on Friday that it will not cut trees in the expansion of its mall in Baguio City.
Rather, it said it will carefully ball out trees for replanting within its property.
It said it will also plant 50 saplings for every tree it will transfer, going beyond the city requirement of planting only 20 saplings for every tree balled out.

Chocolate Slaves

Sinong walang gusto sa chocolate? Kahit bata pa ako noon, mahilig ako sa chocolate at tsampurado. Ang aking MIL ang pasalubong sa akin pag galing sa Europe noon ay tsokolateng may alak sa loob. Unti-unti lang ang pagkain ko. Baka malasing.

Pero ngayong nabasa ko ito, nawalan ako ng ganang kumain ng chocolate. Marami pa pala akong chocolate sa ref. *heh*

It may be unthinkable that the chocolate we enjoy could come from the hands of children working as slaves. In the Ivory Coast and other cocoa-producing countries, there are an estimated 100,000 children working the fields, many against their will, to create the chocolate delicacies enjoyed around the world.

 

More than 10 years ago, two U.S. lawmakers took action to put a stop to child labor in the cocoa industry. Despite pushback from the industry, the Harkin-Engel Protocol, also known as the Cocoa Protocol, was signed into law on September 19, 2001.

In an upcoming documentary, "Chocolate's Child Slaves," CNN's David McKenzie travels into the heart of the Ivory Coast - the world’s largest cocoa producer - to investigate what’s happening to children working in the fields, 10 years after the protocol was signed.

The CNN Freedom Project examined in September 2011 what effect this protocol has had over the years and also what some of the major issues are surrounding slave labor and the cocoa industry. 

Pinaysaamerika