(draft) Global Slavery and Cocoa

Some 27 million men, women, and children are in unpaid servitude, the UN says, with an estimated 200,000 of them in the US. Many of you know I have long interest in this topic, particularly over the last several years since I moved to Coted d'Ivoire with particular regard to cocoa and chocolate. I spend a fair amount of time writing about cocoa for my coursework, and always have a draft here that I never seem to actually post.

I have some conflicted feelings about fair trade as I think the movement has about itself, but ultimately I think these debates are healthy. Questions of "how fair," "who benefits most" how we know something is fair, and who decides are always going to be relevant.