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Chocolate Place And A Pedagogy Of Consumer Privilege Summary

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In Chocolate, Place, and a Pedagogy of Consumer Privilege by David A. Greenwood, the author discusses his perspectives on consumption, how it should be dealt with it, and the cocoa fields of Ghana and Ivory Coast. He begins by explaining the process it takes for consumption to happen and he says that he, like many others, does not support the unjust relationships that come along with the process of consumption. Throughout the rest of this piece he touches on consumer privilege and the barriers that consumption has on others. One of Greenwood’s main arguments is that consumption plays a key role in the desires of people’s lives. He refers to consumption as being the backbone of desires and the drive to want a good life for oneself and their family …show more content…

This project led him and his team to write about the lives of immigrants and refugees and their struggles to find a better life. Greenwood’s biggest argument in this piece is about consumer privilege and the process in which chocolate is produced. Ghana and Ivory Coast are the two top countries in the world that produce cocoa. With most of the worlds chocolate being made in these two countries, there must be a lot of labor put in. Both countries partake in making children work under poor and unhealthy conditions in the cocoa fields. As Americans, we are privileged consumers and we are sometimes blinded by the cruelty of our consumption but several of us feel “distressed and outraged by the knowledge that some children labor as slaves…” (Greenwood 2009: 196). This is upsetting to many Americans because children are being forced to work numerous hours a day in these terrible conditions. It is appalling that children are put through such an intensive and inhumane

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