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A Letter To Hershey's From A Nine Year Old


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My brother Dominic wrote this and put it on hershey's fb wall (using a sister's account)

[quote][color=#808080][font='lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif][size=2][left]Here is the letter that my brother, Dom, wrote to Hershey's. [/left][/size][/font][/color]

[color=#808080][font='lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif][size=2][left]Dear Hershey’s,[/left][/size][/font][/color]
[color=#808080][font='lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif][size=2][left]My name is Dominic and I am nine. I use to love your chocolate, but now I don’t at all. There are seven kids in my family and we used to have s’mores all the time. But now we only have s’mores about two times a year. In October of 2011 one o[/left][/size][/font][/color][color=#808080][font='lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif][size=2][left]f my mom’s friends told her that Hershey’s buys chocolate from farmers who use slaves and child labor in Africa. I don’t feel good eating your chocolate Hershey’s. So now we only eat fair trade chocolate, which, by the way, is hard to find.
Sincerely,
Dominic

(If you share this, you will get a hug within the next 24 hours.)[/left][/size][/font][/color][/quote]

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missionseeker

they haven't responded yet, but you can go to hershey's fb wall and like it if you have fb.

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[quote name='missionseeker' timestamp='1340751198' post='2449215']
they haven't responded yet, but you can go to hershey's fb wall and like it if you have fb.
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Off to do this now!

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TheresaThoma

[quote name='missionseeker' timestamp='1340751198' post='2449215']
they haven't responded yet, but you can go to hershey's fb wall and like it if you have fb.
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Did it,hopefully they will take notice and reply

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MissScripture

[quote name='TheresaThoma' timestamp='1340760829' post='2449294']
Did it,hopefully they will take notice and reply
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I did, too.

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The hug bit is the cutest part. Straight from international social justice boycott to infantile chain-mail superstition... :-D

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I liked it also. Hershey's seems to be commenting on lots of posts by other people, so I'm sure they've seen it at least.

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  • 4 weeks later...
missionseeker

So my sister and I have been craving chocolate chip cookies for weeks. Unfortunately we are in charge of the boys and shopping with Dom for anything is like having a consumer conscience and he's loud. So today we spent 20 mins in the chocolate aisle with iPhones looking up where different companies buy their chocolate. Most were sadly from the ivory coast. Hershey, Nestlé, ghirredeli all of those own the others like cadbury us and Reese's etc, THEN we found: http://laborrightsblog.typepad.com/international_labor_right/2011/09/mars-inc-joins-the-fairtrade-movement.html



So we are having m&m cookies tonight. Even though they aren't completely fair trade yet, the agreement they signed aims to have them using only fairtrade, sustainable farms which is quite a big switch and we are glad they are actually doing something.

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