Ethics of chocolate.

[tnu]

I need some guidance from the local community. Chocolate is perhaps one of my biggest weaknesses and one of the only flavors of confectionery I'll actually eat. But recently I've been having moral problems with it because of the practices employed in Cocoa farms. I'm a huge proponent of ethical consumorism and try to promote and excorcise it  at every posible opportunity. I'm just not sure abotu the facts in this situation and what to do. Also on a semi-related note can somebody tell me the legal ore technical term for when somebody is unable tounderstand the terms of a cntract (such as an infant). I'ma lso trying ot find information on how slavery is sustained in these areas. Hawkeye poitned out ot me that there must be something that i'mmising because of the simple matter that, without being able to deal with the overhead costs of the practice on to somebody else it would be nigh impossible to  sustain. I'm tyrign otmake sense of this.

[BogosityForumUser]

The term you are looking for is "incompetence."  Incompetence is the legal term for the inability to do something due to a lack of mental ability.  It is a subset of the broader category of "lacking capacity." 

The main problem I have with chocolate is the cartel and resulting collusion that occurs in the industry.  And then they turn around and sell it to the U.S. and world consumer through the "fair trade" scheme.  Just because you are buying "fair trade" doesn't mean that there isn't child labor or an actual market rate was paid and just because you don't doesn't mean that there is rampant child labor and a fair rate wasn't paid.  But you only see what they want you to see in such a large-scale global market like that.