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Welcome to "Last Week Tonight" !
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I'm John Oliver,
thank you so much for joining us.
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It has been a busy week.
Israel's war with Hamas continued,
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with hundreds of hostages
still unaccounted for,
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while the country continues
its bombing campaign in Gaza.
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In Washington, Republicans chose
a new House speaker, Mike Johnson,
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a man with resting
assistant principal face.
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Very little was known
about Johnson before this week.
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Senator Susan Collins said "I was
going to Google him this morning".
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But when people actually started
doing that, the results weren't great.
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{\an8}Before entering office,
Johnson called abortion
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{\an8} "a holocaust that has been
repeated every day for 32 years,
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{\an8}since 1973's Roe versus Wade".
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{\an8}As a congressman,
he's co-sponsored at least three bills
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{\an8}that would ban
the procedure nationwide.
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{\an8}Johnson is also staunchly
anti-gay rights.
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{\an8}In 2004, he called homosexuality
"inherently unnatural"
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{\an8}and voted against
legalizing same-sex marriage.
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Yep, pretty bad.
Although, let's face it,
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it's not like the new Republican
speaker wasn't going to have
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a laundry list
of horrifying opinions.
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It'd be more surprising if he threw
a couple of good ones in there, too.
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"He believes abortion is a holocaust,
Friday should be part of the weekend,
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gay marriage is inherently unnatural,
we need more women in STEM,
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and there should be parks
where adults can ride
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down the giant inflatable slide
they use when planes crash."
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I'm sure there will be more to say
about Johnson going forward,
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so for now,
we're going to turn to Argentina.
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Birthplace of both the Pope,
and the actual God.
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Argentina is suffering
a severe economic crisis,
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with inflation
running close to 140%.
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It held its presidential election
last Sunday,
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and as no candidate won outright,
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there'll now be a runoff
between the top two candidates.
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One is the center-left finance minister
whose government
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has been widely blamed
for the current financial crisis.
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And the other, Javier Milei,
who, yes, does look like this,
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you know what,
I'll just let him introduce himself.
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Hi ! I'm General Ancap.
I come from Liberland.
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My mission
is to kick the ever-loving shit
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out of Keynesian and collectivist
fuckers trying to ruin our lives.
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Yeah, just a classic,
run-of-the-mill presidential candidate,
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dressed like Mr. Peanut
dressed as a wizard dressed as Batman,
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pledging to kick
the shit out of Keynesians.
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If I had one note
for that superhero, though,
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it's that John Maynard Keynes
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probably isn't the most
compelling super-nemesis.
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Few economists are.
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There is a reason that the Avengers
fought Thanos and not Alan Greenspan.
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But Milei is a lot. General Ancap
is presumably a reference
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to his political philosophy
of anarcho-capitalism,
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"a strand of libertarianism
that seeks to abolish the state
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in favor of unfettered free markets."
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And he campaigned on heavy cuts,
suggesting slashing public spending
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by 15% of GDP
and eliminating most taxes.
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He also has a controversial plan
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to swap the country's currency
for the U.S. dollar,
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has said he wants to "blow up"
the central bank,
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and has even smashed models
of it in campaign videos,
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and also in pinata form on TV.
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He's also symbolized
his desire to slash the government
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by waving chainsaws
around in public,
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an image his supporters have run with,
wearing chainsaw masks to vote for him,
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and even while doing interviews.
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{\an8}The fight continues
for Javier Milei,
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{\an8}far-right populist who wants
to see spending slashed.
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{\an8}The chainsaw
has become a symbol of this pledge.
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{\an8}Milei is something different
that hasn't been tested before.
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Not to break my one rule and argue
with a guy dressed as a chainsaw,
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but lots of ideas
haven't been tested before.
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We also haven't tried all-trampoline
retirement homes,
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or letting a raccoon
be chief of surgery.
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That's because some ideas are bad,
and I would argue maybe giving control
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of the third-largest economy
in Latin America
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to a guy who looks like he was
escorted out of a Comic-Con panel
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for asking Scarlett Johansson
too many questions
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might well be one of them.
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And it's not just his costumes
and props that are colorful,
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take this talk show interview,
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where he goes into more detail
about his sex life
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than you are possibly expecting.
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{\an8}In tantra, less than 45 minutes is
considered premature ejaculation.
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{\an8}- Less than how much ?
- 45 minutes.
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{\an8}Each man has his own dynamic.
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{\an8}In my particular case,
I ejaculate once every three months.
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{\an8}That's incredible.
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Is it ?
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Is it incredible ?
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I think it might actually
be extremely credible.
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I completely believe that the guy
we saw screaming at dead economists,
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smashing miniature banks on TV,
and waving a chainsaw in the streets
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may be a little, and I'm sorry
for saying this, backed up.
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And then there is Milei's obsession
with his dogs.
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He's happily posed
for glamour photos with them
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and held up a portrait
gifted by one of his supporters.
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Just watch as this interview
on a talk show gets totally derailed
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when he sees a photo
of his dog, Conan.
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You don't need to know
what is being said here,
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I promise,
you will pick up the gist of it.
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Okay, that is pretty likable.
He just got distracted by his own dog
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the way dogs get distracted
by any squirrel.
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It's honestly hard for me
to criticize that
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because that's also how I respond
if I ever see a picture of...
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It's Conan !
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It's Conan !
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We all love things to the extent
that they completely distract us,
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whenever they happen to appear...
It's Conan !
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It's Conan !
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What I'm saying is, it's understandable
that Milei struggled to pay attention,
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considering what was being...
It's Conan !
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Conan !
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Quit staring at me, John !
I'm not a piece of meat !
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No, of course not. I'm sorry, Conan.
I truly apologize.
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Anyway, like I said,
the things we love can be distracting.
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So, it is clear
Milei loves his dogs.
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But you should know,
while I've been saying "dogs",
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I really should
have just said "dog",
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because all of them are genetic copies
of his one former dog, Conan.
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And the story gets even weirder.
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Because he calls his cloned dogs,
of which there are at least four,
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"the best strategists in the world,"
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and according to one biographer,
trusts them to a genuine fault.
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{\an8}The dogs he has now
are divided into a sort of cabinet.
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{\an8}He also believes that Conan,
the dog that died,
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{\an8}has reincarnated
in one of the clones.
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{\an8}That dog helps him, and I quote
"With the general strategy".
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{\an8}Then Murray advises him
in economics,
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{\an8}and Lucas is the one that helps him see
the future and learn from his mistakes.
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{\an8}It's almost
like an official cabinet.
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At this point,
I feel the need to tell you,
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we didn't invent this man
for this show.
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I get how an anarcho-capitalist,
chainsaw-brandishing,
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dog-cloning presidential candidate
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who looks like a waterlogged
Billie Joe Armstrong
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and sees his dogs
as some sort of clairvoyant,
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reincarnated force functioning
as a political cabinet
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could seem like he was tailor-made,
in a lab, specifically for this show.
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But he wasn't.
His dogs were, but he wasn't.
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This is a distressingly real person.
And while there is something very funny
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about a politician who workshops
his ideas with his four dog,
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it gets less fun when
you see what those ideas are.
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Because he's called for "expanding gun
ownership and outlawing abortion,"
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referred to global
warming as a "socialist lie",
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has called Trump "one of the best
presidents in the history of the US",
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and described the Pope
as an "embarrassing communist",
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a "piece of shit" and a "potato".
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I know we weren't expecting
the man with a bunch of cloned dogs
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and a onceper-quarter jizz schedule
to have good opinions.
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But those are strikingly bad.
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And Milei has a lot of support,
particularly from young men.
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And the thing is,
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a desire for some sort of radical
change in Argentina is understandable,
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given the depths
of the country's financial crisis.
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People's earnings
and savings have been wiped out,
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and around 40% of Argentines
are living in poverty.
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Things are really bad there.
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Milei's opponent
is the current finance minister,
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so he is tied pretty closely to it.
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It's no wonder that some Argentines,
like this woman voting last Sunday,
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are pretty depressed
about the options in front of them.
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{\an8}We don't have
a really good option.
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{\an8}I didn't came here
and said I know who I'm going to vote.
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{\an8}I was like,
I don't really know,
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{\an8}because nothing is,
and I believe that nothing is good.
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When your options
are more of the same
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or emo edgelord
Tucker Carlson here,
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it is understandable
to believe that nothing is good.
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And unfortunately,
the worse things get in Argentina,
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the easier it is for Milei
to make the case that any change,
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no matter how untested or dangerous,
is better than the current system.
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So, while I agree Argentines
deserve something new,
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I also think they deserve
a lot better than this chainsaw-wielding,
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backed-up superhero
and his Xeroxed dog quartet.
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And now, this !
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And Now:
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Dagen McDowell Seems Like
She Was a Fun Kid.
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{\an8}- I was a Girl Scout, briefly.
- That's nice.
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{\an8}- I was kicked out of the Girl Scouts.
- There's a story there.
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{\an8}I was very vocal.
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{\an8}I would share my stories
about being a Girl Scout,
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{\an8}if I hadn't been kicked out of the
Girl Scouts for being too mouthy.
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{\an8}I was kicked out of the Girl Scouts
for being too mouthy.
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{\an8}I got kicked out of the Girl Scouts.
I didn't think it was all that cool.
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{\an8}They made me go to a Jimmy Carter
speech when he was the president.
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{\an8}I got kicked out of the Girl Scouts
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{\an8}'cause they made us go see Jimmy
Carter speak when he was president
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{\an8}and I bitched about it.
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{\an8}They made me go
hear Jimmy Carter speak.
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{\an8}- And I was very vocal about that.
- Even at that age.
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{\an8}I got kicked out of the Girl Scouts,
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{\an8}'cause I fussed
about them making me go
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{\an8}hear Jimmy Carter speak
when he was the president.
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{\an8}A quick confession. Geraldo,
the thing about sleeping like this,
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{\an8}'cause you're afraid
of vampires biting your neck ?
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{\an8}I still do that.
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Moving on.
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Our main story tonight
concerns chocolate.
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The star attraction
in Neapolitan ice cream.
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Nothing against vanilla
and strawberry,
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it's just that one is a euphemism
for boring sex,
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and the other is fruit,
and fruit is simply not dessert.
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Chocolate is the greatest. Watch
as this baby gets a first taste of it.
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I know. Okay, one more !
Really big one.
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Ready ? You ready ?
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Yeah, baby ! Same !
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And I hope it savors
that chocolate high.
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Because I think we all know,
the rest of human experience
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is pretty much downhill
from there.
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Everybody loves chocolate,
that is why we use it for everything,
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from beauty products,
to sculptures, to breakfast cereal.
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Although some arguably
love it a little too much,
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like the host of this cooking show.
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There's a component,
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a substance in chocolate
called phenylethylamine
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and what that fancy word does
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is it slightly elevates your blood
pressure and your heart rate,
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and they tell me that it's a sensation
that's not unlike having an orgasm.
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I don't know !
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Maybe that's why people love
chocolate so much,
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but, anyway,
let me get back to our step here.
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What a long, weird way to tell people
that you've never had an orgasm.
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Second, I can't believe
there is a chemical
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that makes your brain horny
and they named it "phenylethylamine".
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That is not a sexy name.
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"Erotisol." "Seductilust."
"Dat-assoline."
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All of those are free
and available.
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To be very clear, eating chocolate
is nothing like having an orgasm.
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Unless you count the fact
that when boys do it, it is messier.
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But chocolate
isn't just making people horny,
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it's also making a lot of money.
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Globally,
it's a $140 billion a year industry,
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and at this point, you might
be sitting at home thinking,
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"Hold on,
I've seen this show before.
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This feels like it's gonna be
one of the fun stories,
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but is it about to take a turn ?
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I've got a jumbo bag
of fun-size Snickers
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that I'm gonna be handing out
to tiny Iron Men, Elsas, and Luigis
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in around 48 hours; are you going
to make that weird for me ?"
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Yes, I am.
And also, don't bullshit me.
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Half that bag is gonna be gone
by Halloween, and you know it.
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But the reason
this is about to take a turn is,
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for all the money
and happiness surrounding chocolate,
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there is one group
that doesn't get to share in it,
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and that is the farmers
who grow cocoa in the first place.
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The vast majority have
never even tasted chocolate.
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And that is something
that reporters and documentarians
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love to try
and remedy on camera,
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and perhaps none
as patronizingly as this.
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These farmers have been growing
beans for decades.
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They're about to get
their first taste of chocolate.
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- You have never tried chocolate ?
- No.
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It's good !
It's good to eat !
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That is your cocoa !
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To those who thought
that I'm the most annoying version
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of a loud man on TV
with a British accent,
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looks like you owe me
an apology.
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Because that is pretty condescending
right there.
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"Attention, former subjects,
we noticed that you've not once
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tasted the fruits
of your interminable toil,
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so allow me to present you with
a generous gift of a single Kit Kat.
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That is your cocoa !"
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And the reason most farmers
haven't tried chocolate before
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is, they can't afford it.
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More than 60% of cocoa comes
from two West African countries:
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Ivory Coast and Ghana.
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Researchers have found that,
in those places,
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between 73 and 90% of cocoa farmers
do not earn a living income,
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with 30 to 58% earning below
the World Bank's extreme poverty line.
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There's a bit weird about a product
so synonymous for spreading joy,
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and giving babies
what's basically a cocaine rush,
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abandoning those who grow
its key ingredient to grinding poverty.
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Because even if you had a sense
that cocoa production had issues,
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the truth is,
from the land its grown on,
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to the working conditions
of those who harvest it,
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it is worse
than you may realize.
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So, given that,
as we prepare for our annual tradition
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of stuffing as much of it
in our faces as humanly possible,
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let's talk about chocolate.
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Let's start with the fact
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that cocoa is mostly grown
on very small, family-run plots.
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There are about half a million
of them in Ivory Coast,
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and another 800,000 in Ghana.
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Harvesting cocoa pods is labor
intensive and done entirely by hand.
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And what's inside them may not be
what you are picturing in your mind.
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Ivans Kanube cracks open the pods
to extract the sweet, slimy bean,
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which at this stage
has a flavor like lychee fruit.
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Once the cocoa is collected,
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it's left to ferment under banana
leaves for about seven days.
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That slimy bean soup is cocoa.
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Chocolate starts out
as gluey white insect larva
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that comes out of a big tree egg,
and it's only after a long process
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that that fermenting forest jizz
becomes something more appetizing.
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Or in the case of a Mounds bar,
even less appetizing.
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From the farm, the cocoa
then passes through a number of hands
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on its way
to the chocolate companies,
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from the people who collect the beans,
to the warehouses who store them,
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each of whom gets paid
for their part in the chain.
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But at a certain point, they all feed
into one narrow bottleneck,
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as this expert explains in an almost
unnervingly soothing way.
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{\an8}In a way, the story of chocolate
is a little bit like an hourglass,
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{\an8}where you have millions
of smallholders growing cocoa
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at the very beginning of the story,
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and at the end of the story,
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you have millions of consumers
eating chocolate.
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But right at the center
of the hourglass
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are a handful
of extremely powerful companies.
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These companies
are the cocoa traders.
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Okay.
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That was a very good description
of how the industry works,
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from what I can only assume
is a nine-hour YouTube video
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entitled "Woman Explains Cocoa
Sector Inequality ASMR
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Fall Asleep Now High Quality
Headphones On."
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But it is true,
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the industry is dominated by just
a handful of cocoa trading companies,
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the most powerful of which
are the so-called big three:
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Cargill, Barry Callebaut, and OFI,
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which together buy and process
about 60% of the world's cocoa.
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They then sell to a handful
of major chocolate companies:
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Mars, Mondelez, which owns Cadbury,
Ferrero, Nestle, and Hershey,
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which together
sell over half the world's chocolate.
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When you have so many farmers,
and so few buyers,
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the buyers clearly have
a big advantage.
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That is why only about six%
of the value of a chocolate bar
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makes its way back to the farmer.
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I'm not saying
that those companies
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aren't adding real value
to their part of the process.
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They are ! This Halloween,
try offering a Spiderman a Kit Kat
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or a handful of sticky white bean larva
and see which they prefer.
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But there are clearly
massive disparities
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in who reaps the benefits
of this extremely profitable industry.
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And I will say,
there are mechanisms in place
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to at least help stabilize
the amount that farmers earn.
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Both Ghana and Ivory Coast
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set minimum prices
that farmers receive for their cocoa.
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The problem is, those prices
are not only difficult to enforce,
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but crucially, they're often not enough
to cover the costs of farming.
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And so, some farmers, most of whom
are experiencing extreme poverty,
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have resorted to trying
to increase their earnings
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by growing more cocoa on land
that is protected by the government.
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Which is illegal because it can do
significant environmental damage.
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Desperate farmers
supplement their crop
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by growing cocoa trees
in a protected forest,
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where the uncultivated soil
is more fertile,
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and stolen land is, in effect,
free of charge.
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What's left behind
is known as a skeleton forest.
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Let's face it,
it was only a matter of time
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before the phrase "skeleton forest"
appeared on this show.
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Because if there is a sinister
combination of words out there,
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we're gonna stumble over it.
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Tumor elections ? Ghost abuse ?
Murder pollution ? Stay tuned.
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All those are coming up.
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But it's not just environmental damage,
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there is also significant human cost
in cocoa farming,
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which has been well-known
for a while.
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Around 20 years ago, a series
of news stories and a documentary
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found that young children, some of
whom had been enslaved or trafficked,
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were working on cocoa farms that
supplied major chocolate companies.
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And in the wake
of public horror over this,
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companies didn't do themselves
any favors with how they responded.
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Listen to the answers
that this Dutch journalist got
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when he asked Nestle
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about whether children
were involved in making its chocolate.
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{\an8}Children are working in virtually every
agricultural setup around the world.
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{\an8}- Yes.
- Okay ?
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{\an8}As a matter of fact, when I was 11 or
12 years old, I went to help a farmer.
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{\an8}I did not get paid for it.
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{\an8}I did it because I thought
it was fun.
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{\an8}That was child labor.
A child working.
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{\an8}- And that's the same.
- It's not the same.
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{\an8}It's evidently.
I didn't need to do that. Okay ?
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Right. Not to stress the most
obvious point in the universe,
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but doing something for fun isn't
the same thing as doing it to survive.
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It's the difference
between being in an escape room
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and being in a "Saw" movie.
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They're both bad first date ideas,
but that is where the similarities end.
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I'll give him this:
a lot of child labor
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does consist of kids working
on their own families' cocoa farms.
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Though even in those cases, they can
be doing so in hazardous conditions.
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And also, watch as that Nestle
spokesperson
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accidentally walks into
a pretty damaging admission
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of exactly why they might have been
having to do that in the first place.
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{\an8}For a poor farmer in Africa,
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{\an8}often the help
that he gets from his children
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{\an8}is vital in order to maintain
the standard of living of the family.
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{\an8}- Because they are...
- Because they are so desperately poor.
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{\an8}They don't get paid enough by Nestle,
or by the companies they work for.
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{\an8}All right, that's it.
Thank you very much.
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It is very funny to me that he thought
ending that call when he did
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was somehow avoiding
implicating himself.
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"The farmers have to make
their children work for them,
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because they are so poor, they're
not paid a living wage by Nestle,
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the company that I...
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Nice try, you're breaking up,
I'm going through a tunnel.
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Goodbye ! That was a close one.
I think I got away with it."
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And, again, it's not just kids
working on their family farms.
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Children have been known
to be forced, or trafficked,
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to work in cocoa production.
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While, because of the nature of this
crime, exact numbers aren't known,
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one survey estimated that
in Ivory Coast, over a four-year period,
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2,000 children
were victims of forced labor,
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while in Ghana, it was 14,000.
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And back in the 2000s,
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outrage over this spurred
U.S. lawmakers to take action.
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First, they considered
mandating labels for chocolate,
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indicating whether or not it was
made with child slave labor.
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But the chocolate industry
then lobbied that down
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to a voluntary agreement to eliminate
the "worst forms of child labor",
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promising to get it done
by July 2005.
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That agreement later became known
as the Harkin-Engel Protocol,
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after the two lawmakers
who'd pushed for it.
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But when the deadline
rolled around,
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Senator Harkin
had this unfortunate update.
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{\an8}Though I was disappointed
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{\an8}that the July 1st deadline
was not fully met by the industry,
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{\an8}they have given us a commitment
to achieving a certification system
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{\an8}which can be expanded across the
cocoa-growing areas of West Africa,
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{\an8}and which will cover
50% of the cocoa-growing areas
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{\an8}of Ivory Coast and Ghana
in three years time.
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{\an8}I am very pleased
with this commitment.
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Wait, are you ?
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I'm genuinely jealous of your
infinite capacity for trusting others.
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"I see from the first panel
of today's Peanuts comic
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that Lucy is finally going to let
Charlie Brown kick the football.
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While I was disappointed
by her actions in the past,
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a new day has brought a sense
of integrity within this young girl,
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and I'm very excited
to move my gaze down the page
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and see this commitment honored in...
She did it again !"
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And predictably, the companies
didn't meet that new deadline either.
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Once 2008 rolled around,
they kicked it to 2010,
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then pushed it again to 2020
while downgrading their goal
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to just getting a 70% reduction
in child labor,
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rather than eliminating it entirely,
then they missed that deadline, too.
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And the companies
almost certainly knew
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that they wouldn't be
keeping their promises here.
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As the former head of The
International Cocoa Initiative put it
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"Was there any chance
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of child labor being eradicated
by the original 2005 deadline ?
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No, never."
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And at that point,
why bother setting a date at all ?
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If your friend agrees
to meet you for dinner at 7:00,
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then pushes it to 7:30, then 8:00,
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and then finally says "Be there in 20
years not minutes,"
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it feels they never had any intention
of getting dinner in the first place.
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It is not like the chocolate
companies have done nothing.
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They started flashy-looking programs
with "cocoa" in their names
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that promised to be vigilant
about monitoring for child labor,
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and produced impressive looking ads
featuring happy farmers,
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and websites showing how carefully
they monitor their supply chain.
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But the reality hasn't remotely
lived up to the rhetoric.
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Just last year, some journalists
looked at a map of farms
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on Mondelez's Cocoa Life website,
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and then sent a camera crew
to Ghana to check some out,
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and you'll never guess
what they found.
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It didn't take long
to find children working on a farm
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00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,319
matching the coordinates
listed on the Cocoa Life website.
456
00:24:47,799 --> 00:24:50,680
The team filmed two young boys
aged ten and 11,
457
00:24:51,039 --> 00:24:54,599
harvesting cocoa pods using
long sticks with sharp hooks
458
00:24:55,079 --> 00:24:57,200
and wearing no protective clothing.
459
00:24:58,079 --> 00:25:01,636
It's true, they went to just one
of the farms listed on their site,
460
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,995
a site filled with claims that child
labor is completely unacceptable,
461
00:25:05,079 --> 00:25:07,316
and instantly found child labor.
462
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,116
I don't know what statement Mondelez
can release in the wake of that,
463
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,750
other than maybe, "Honestly, did not
think anyone would actually check."
464
00:25:14,519 --> 00:25:17,955
If you're thinking, "We can't trust
companies to monitor themselves,
465
00:25:18,039 --> 00:25:20,116
that's why there should
be a third party involved."
466
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,880
The thing is,
those have also existed for years,
467
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,796
chocolate companies have long
purchased at least some of their beans
468
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,475
from third-party
organizations like these,
469
00:25:29,559 --> 00:25:31,836
who certify the farmers
who supply them
470
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,876
have met certain child labor
and environmental standards.
471
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,556
You might have seen
one of these logos on a chocolate bar
472
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,156
and felt reassured by it.
473
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,156
But while advocates
say that some of these organizations
474
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,475
have improved
conditions somewhat,
475
00:25:44,559 --> 00:25:48,076
these logos just aren't the guarantee
that you might want them to be.
476
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,755
For a start, while the organizations
pay farmers a small premium
477
00:25:50,839 --> 00:25:52,316
for meeting their standards,
478
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,916
those premiums might not even cover
the cost of complying with the program.
479
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,300
But also, typically,
inspections for the labels
480
00:25:58,519 --> 00:26:01,519
are required of fewer
than one in ten farms annually.
481
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,475
Watch what happened
when reporters went undercover
482
00:26:04,559 --> 00:26:07,556
as chocolate company executives,
and visited a contractor
483
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,235
who did audits for Utz,
one of those third-party organizations.
484
00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:13,916
Because he explains to them
exactly why he's so confident
485
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,359
that he won't find child labor
on any farm that he visits.
486
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,119
The audit
is announced in advance.
487
00:26:21,799 --> 00:26:24,499
You go and visit producers
who know that you're coming.
488
00:26:24,559 --> 00:26:27,309
When you go to them,
you are not gonna see any children.
489
00:26:27,519 --> 00:26:31,955
That is true auditors
give advance notice of inspections.
490
00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:33,836
Which is clearly ridiculous.
491
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:35,675
Because that's never
going to be reliable.
492
00:26:35,759 --> 00:26:37,235
If you tell your teenager
493
00:26:37,319 --> 00:26:41,000
"I'm checking your backpack
for cigarettes next Tuesday",
494
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,480
then great news,
you're not gonna find any.
495
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:46,235
I have to tell you,
496
00:26:46,319 --> 00:26:50,035
Utz has maintained that it holds
auditors to the highest standards.
497
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:51,955
You have seen those standards
498
00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:55,289
and, I don't know about you,
but they didn't seem that high to me.
499
00:26:55,319 --> 00:26:56,356
As for Mondelez,
500
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,790
who turned out to have child labor
at one of its suppliers in Ghana,
501
00:26:59,799 --> 00:27:03,195
it said that it was
"deeply concerned" by these incidents,
502
00:27:03,279 --> 00:27:06,200
and, okay, that makes
two of us, Mondelez.
503
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,156
It wants you to know that it has a
child labor monitoring system in place
504
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,440
to prevent this kind of thing
from happening.
505
00:27:13,519 --> 00:27:16,035
Which is very reassuring,
until you remember
506
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,960
it only took a documentary crew
one flight to Ghana
507
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,480
to prove that that system
is, at best, deeply inadequate.
508
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:28,275
All these companies will say that
they are concerned about child labor,
509
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,636
and that they've spent a lot of money
trying to fix it.
510
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,876
By one estimate, as of 2019,
they'd spent more than $150 million
511
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:36,235
to address this issue.
512
00:27:36,319 --> 00:27:38,836
But that's over 18 years,
513
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,636
and while they were collecting
$103 billion in sales annually.
514
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,475
Meaning that over two decades,
515
00:27:44,559 --> 00:27:48,119
they've spent just 0.1%
of one year's sales.
516
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,955
And come on !
M&M's must've spent more than that
517
00:27:52,039 --> 00:27:55,119
fine-tuning exactly how fuckable
the Green M&M is.
518
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,076
And for all the companies'
claims of concern,
519
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,396
the fact remains: according
to the U.S. Department of Labor,
520
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,876
an estimated
one and a half million children
521
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,755
work in cocoa production
in Ghana and Ivory Coast,
522
00:28:07,839 --> 00:28:10,275
many of whom are engaged
in dangerous tasks.
523
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,316
Or, as a Washington Post
investigation concluded
524
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,076
"the odds are substantial that a
chocolate bar bought in the US
525
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,359
is the product of child labor".
526
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,799
In fact, the persistence of it
in the supply chain is an open secret.
527
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,235
Just watch as some young workers
end up joking about it
528
00:28:26,319 --> 00:28:28,069
when asked by visiting journalists.
529
00:28:28,079 --> 00:28:31,519
{\an8}There is no child labor here.
530
00:28:32,599 --> 00:28:35,000
{\an8}We're all between
20 and 25 years old.
531
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,799
{\an8}And the young boy to your left ?
532
00:28:38,759 --> 00:28:43,319
{\an8}- How old are you ?
- He's 25. 21.
533
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,319
{\an8}- He's laughing.
- He can laugh. It's true !
534
00:28:49,359 --> 00:28:51,839
{\an8}The journalist
wants to know how old you are.
535
00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:55,759
{\an8}Just tell him you're 21.
Say you're 21.
536
00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:57,359
{\an8}I'm 21.
537
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,876
We all fondly remember being 21,
small frame, childlike voice,
538
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,035
another guy has to constantly
remind you that you're 21.
539
00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:08,160
Just classic early-20s stuff.
540
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,030
I know they were laughing there,
and that clip was kind of charming.
541
00:29:12,079 --> 00:29:15,240
But the truth is, for others,
the stories are pretty harrowing,
542
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,515
like this young girl
who said that, at this point,
543
00:29:17,599 --> 00:29:20,480
she'd already been farming cocoa
for five years.
544
00:29:21,599 --> 00:29:23,160
I was brought here by my aunt.
545
00:29:23,559 --> 00:29:25,955
I was told I would
be helping with the baby,
546
00:29:26,039 --> 00:29:27,755
but instead I only do farming.
547
00:29:27,839 --> 00:29:31,640
She says she wants to go to school,
but her uncle can't afford to send her.
548
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,475
My uncle says he struggles
to pay for his own children,
549
00:29:34,559 --> 00:29:37,880
so if I join them, he will not
be able to buy the schoolbooks.
550
00:29:38,279 --> 00:29:40,160
We asked if she misses her family.
551
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:41,675
Yes.
552
00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:43,720
- Do you hear from them ?
- No.
553
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,475
Have you ever been back to visit them
since you came here ?
554
00:29:47,559 --> 00:29:48,519
No.
555
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,275
That is heartbreaking.
And the truth is,
556
00:29:51,359 --> 00:29:53,809
there are a lot more clips
out there like that one
557
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,799
than there are of kids
joking around about being 21.
558
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,235
You might be wondering,
what can we do differently ?
559
00:30:00,319 --> 00:30:02,675
And I will admit,
it's really complicated.
560
00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:05,475
Child labor in these regions
is caused by a myriad of issues,
561
00:30:05,559 --> 00:30:08,316
from poor infrastructure
to limited access to education.
562
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,920
But to a significant extent,
it is caused by poverty.
563
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,160
A poverty that is perpetuated
by these chocolate companies.
564
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,796
And if they really
want to remedy things,
565
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,839
a good first step would
simply be to pay farmers more.
566
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,916
And companies may balk at that,
saying that they don't set the price,
567
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,035
the market does.
568
00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:29,319
But as this advocate points out,
that's a pretty lousy excuse.
569
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,995
{\an8}Every trader and every
multinational I speak to always say
570
00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:37,679
{\an8} "But that's the world market price.
We have no influence on that at all."
571
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,316
But you buy a quarter
of the world's cocoa beans.
572
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,720
How can you
not influence the price ?
573
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,400
Exactly.
574
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,636
I am no economist,
despite winning back in preschool
575
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,755
"Most Likely to be an Economist
Based on Appearance,"
576
00:30:51,839 --> 00:30:55,356
But if you buy that much
of the global supply in something,
577
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,880
you definitely have some
sway over how much it costs.
578
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,316
There are models
here that companies could look to.
579
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,435
Remember that Dutch journalist making
the guy from Nestle squirm ?
580
00:31:05,519 --> 00:31:07,035
As a result of that segment,
581
00:31:07,119 --> 00:31:10,916
he created his own chocolate company,
Tony's Chocolonely.
582
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,235
It works hard
583
00:31:12,319 --> 00:31:15,475
to ensure that its supply chain
is free from child or slave labor,
584
00:31:15,559 --> 00:31:19,715
and ensures that the people who grow
its cocoa aren't in dire poverty.
585
00:31:19,799 --> 00:31:21,876
Here is its former
head of sustainability,
586
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,279
explaining how it sets the price
for the beans that it buys.
587
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,160
{\an8}We calculate how big the gap is
between the government set price,
588
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,560
and the living income price, and we
pay that gap as an extra premium.
589
00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:35,035
For the spring harvest,
590
00:31:35,119 --> 00:31:38,960
the premium was about $63 higher
than what's set by the government,
591
00:31:39,279 --> 00:31:42,880
meaning Tony's paid almost double
for each bag of beans.
592
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:44,480
That's great.
593
00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:46,235
And it says something
594
00:31:46,319 --> 00:31:49,876
that Tony's was somehow able
to pay farmers double the going rate,
595
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,195
despite being a mid-size Dutch cocoa
company whose logo, by the way,
596
00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:57,200
looks like a casual dining restaurant
operated by-and-for clowns.
597
00:31:58,279 --> 00:32:03,515
If these guys can do it, there's frankly
no reason why these guys can't as well.
598
00:32:03,599 --> 00:32:04,675
And to be fair,
599
00:32:04,759 --> 00:32:07,675
even Tony's own website admits
the scale of the challenge here,
600
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:09,156
saying "We have never found
601
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,396
an instance of modern slavery
in our supply chain.
602
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,755
However, we do not guarantee
our chocolate is 100% slave free.
603
00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:18,195
While we are doing everything
we can to prevent slavery
604
00:32:18,279 --> 00:32:20,480
and child labor,
we are also realistic."
605
00:32:20,799 --> 00:32:22,836
And I have to say,
I appreciate that,
606
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,796
because there is a difference between
recognizing how much there is to do,
607
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,720
and simply not doing enough.
608
00:32:29,319 --> 00:32:31,195
And I know these are companies,
not charities,
609
00:32:31,279 --> 00:32:33,596
whose job it is to make money
and not save the world.
610
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,316
But that means that they will
only care about this problem
611
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,720
exactly as much
as they are forced to.
612
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,156
If we are serious about getting
child labor out of our chocolate,
613
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,755
we can't keep relying on pinky
promises and the honor system,
614
00:32:46,839 --> 00:32:51,116
we need tough legislation that requires
companies do the right thing.
615
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,316
And it's not like this
is the only industry
616
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,850
where exploitation
in other countries is the norm.
617
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,755
I could just as easily have done
this piece about coffee or palm oil.
618
00:32:59,839 --> 00:33:01,475
And we actually
talked about trafficking
619
00:33:01,559 --> 00:33:05,160
and child labor in the U.S.
Farm system this year.
620
00:33:05,759 --> 00:33:08,156
But experts themselves
say of chocolate
621
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,195
"in few industries is the evidence
of objectionable practices so clear,
622
00:33:12,279 --> 00:33:14,529
the industry's pledges
to reform so ambitious,
623
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,995
and the breaching
of those promises so obvious."
624
00:33:18,079 --> 00:33:20,995
We have known for 20 years
what the problems are here,
625
00:33:21,079 --> 00:33:23,156
and we haven't bothered
to fix them.
626
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,836
But if we do, then imagine this:
one day, maybe, just maybe,
627
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,195
we can get back
to a point where chocolate
628
00:33:29,279 --> 00:33:32,880
can once more give us the simple
uncomplicated joy of this.
629
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,319
Exactly. And now, this !
630
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,556
And Now:
Local Law Enforcement Agencies
631
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,720
Go All Out with Their
Halloween Safety PSAs.
632
00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:49,636
Hi, everybody.
633
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,240
This is K-9 Sam for the Prince George's
County Police Department
634
00:33:53,559 --> 00:33:56,556
with some Halloween safety tips.
635
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,240
{\an8}We're here to go over some safety tips
for the upcoming Halloween.
636
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,559
{\an8}That's gonna be on October 31st.
637
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,830
We'll celebrate at the recommended
hours of 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
638
00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:07,839
Never...
639
00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:10,276
... Enter the home
of someone you do not know.
640
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,920
It's a good idea
go trickor-treating with friends.
641
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,435
Also, be very careful
while you're crossing the streets.
642
00:34:17,519 --> 00:34:19,280
Try to use the crosswalks...
643
00:34:21,079 --> 00:34:22,079
Really, man ?
644
00:34:22,519 --> 00:34:25,435
When you're crossing the road,
make sure you're crossing at a sidewalk,
645
00:34:25,519 --> 00:34:27,760
looking both ways
before going across.
646
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,420
{\an8}If you see something suspicious,
make sure you give us a call !
647
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,280
{\an8}For parents handing out treats at home,
do not let the kids inside the house.
648
00:34:42,079 --> 00:34:44,316
Here are some tips
parents can be aware of
649
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,500
when taking their kiddos
trick-or-treating.
650
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:50,599
Let's keep our kids safe.
651
00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:53,409
{\an8}Let's have a great
and spooktacular Halloween.
652
00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:17,599
That's our show.
We'll see you next week, good night !
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