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international rights advocates filed a lawsuit claiming that snuck giant sink looting nestlé mars and cargo forced children as young as 11 to make their products at least trying to has been looking into the not so sweet story behind your favorite treat. one chocolate cannot get more dark i'm not talking about the percentage of milk but rather how much child labor is used in production human rights activists are suing a number of food giants on the u.s. market including the likes of mars the reason claims of knowingly benefiting from selling cheap cocoa harvested by child slaves these companies are working together through the world cocoa federation these companies are profiting handsomely from the very cheap cocoa that they get from using child slaves children who were kidnapped from mali and brought to go to war and floors to work. they came to duvall are between the ages of 11 and 14 and each of them ended up working for

several years before they managed to escape so the activist are sounding the alarm over ivory coast a fact to think of the country exports more cocoa than anyone else on the planet now providing about 2 thirds of the world's supply which makes it very likely that the regular chocolate bar you eat tastes of illegal child labor while you're chilling just picture what slavery is like here's what the activists heard from kids who escaped after years of misery ease of was told he would be fed and paid his wages at the end of the season he cleared brush with a machete apply pesticides and herbicides without any safety instructions or protective gear he slept on the plantation alone and a ragged top he was exposed to in 6 in snakes he was given very little food and was often hungry at the end of the year he was not paid repeated stories of disastrous

safety food work and living conditions all to end up being fooled with paying. whose main tara and is suv baguio co was about 6 to 7 hours to the small isolated village of sour duca they were not given any food and they were only able to drink water down to the river they did everything on the plantation without any protective gear but have visible scars from machete accidents an american government study found the number of children harvesting cocoa in west africa has gone up year on year and is now about $1600000.00 war then 95 per cent are engaged in hazardous work companies in the big chocolate business admit there's an issue with child labor and pretty much all claim they're doing their best to tackle it but in their defense they're trying to tell the critics how hard it is to monitor such a massive industry some businesses have built schools in africa many have come up

with programs to avoid child abuse the activists however claim the programs could actually be used as schemes to create a positive image but hide the scale of slavery horrors good arrests and they roll out these fake programs that sound good on paper the cocoa action plan the nestle cocoa plan and it's all just a lie what they're actually doing is continuing to change nothing except they create a small model program that monitors a tiny fraction of their supply chain so they can convince some consumers at least that they're making progress according to the lawsuit only 30 percent of the plantations are subject to scrutiny the rest are the so-called free zones where there is claimed to be 0 monitoring so even if the food giants efforts are indeed and at the right thing the reality of the cocoa business is darker than the darkest

chocolate bar you've ever tasted. nestle mars and cargill are yet to respond to our request for comment on the allegations. a court in the hague has ruled that the dutch government's controversial cool would curfew is illegal it said that authorities have misused emergency powers the curfew will however remain in place until the government's appeal on friday or europe correspondent peter all over has more. well there's 9 pm curfew that's been in place in the netherlands to try and stop the spread of covert nineteen's been one of the most controversial measures that's been put in across the european continent on tuesday a court in the hague said it was illegal the curfew is a far reaching violation of the right to freedom of movement and previously and indirectly limits among other things the right to freedom of assembly and

demonstration the curfew is based on a law for emergency situations where there's no time for debate with parliament there was no such pressing need in this case no such pressing need seems to be one of the key phrases in the ruling it relates directly to the fact that the number of covert cases in the netherlands has been declining steadily since mid december we did see demonstrations against this curfew demonstrations that turned violent clashes between protesters and police bordering on full blown riot in cities like amsterdam and rotterdam earlier this year but despite the court ruling on tuesday that curfew remains in place the reason for that is markedly to the dutch prime minister and his government they applied for an emergency injunction against the court ruling to allow the the curfew to remain in place so it could be debated further that injunction was granted mark rooters says the curfew is necessary to get covert numbers down and keep them down. middle the curfew is a means not

a girl i can't emphasize that often enough the aim is to bring the virus under control so we can regain all our freedoms the reason the curfew was introduced and thus not changed. well mr it is government working on ways to put in place new laws that would essentially allow the curfew to be rendered legal what we are seeing though when it comes to people on the streets in the netherlands is there's a fairly mixed opinion right now to whether this curfew needs to be gotten rid of or whether it needs to stay. like a few makes absolutely no sense what they've done now they try to keep those students in that if those students go somewhere before 9 pm and only go out again in the morning that's fine too the curfew was no use they have to ground those planes so that people can't travel because as long as people continue to travel they will continue to travel or i notice that people who don't have much to do with

it have less trouble with karana i've had chronic myself so i know how bad it can be my mother died of it recently we also noticed that there are fewer flu symptoms if you're cold complaints also because people have less contact and stick to the rules in a better manner i think the responsibility should lie with every individual i mean i didn't like the curfew myself but i didn't think they had to protest against it either it doesn't bother me personally because i'm not coming out of work after 9 pm anyway but i mean it matters for people like my brother who come back from work at a 9 while this is all very messy legally it may well have huge repercussions for the more than 50000 people who've already being handed fines for breaching the curfew by the police we are expecting more to come on 'd this it's up for debate on friday in the netherlands we'll see whether that curfew remains whether it goes or whether

it comes back in some different type of for. there has been unrest in barcelona following the jailing of a rapper there this week public is facing a 9 month sentence over insults towards the spanish royal family and glorifying terrorist groups and his tweets and lyrics i. was. protests were reported in cities across the catalonia region and involved in their own 2000 people rallied in barcelona alone where they were met with a strong police presence demonstrators held by others reading free. will 32 year old was taken to prison choose the after boracay to himself in a university with a number of supporters in order to avoid arrest he had been given until last friday night to turn himself in begin serving his sentence before the arrest the rapper

claimed he wanted to resist the decision as he demanded freedom of expression. i decided to resist such an unjust sentence because it would be unfair and humiliating for me to go to jail we demand freedom of expression i shouldn't be imprisoned and not only me but so many other people who are either waiting to be imprisoned all have cases opened against them for the same reasons in the future or we spoke to a member of the castle a national assembly who sees that suppressing freedom of speech is another region why the region needs and depend. spanish over many is. fundamental rights activists have their right to free speech and free free creation croom government is they call themselves the most progressive government in the history for spain and so for them the case of the high salary is

a big problem because is a clear sign that this is not true or not this is one of the reasons why we want the independence not because we want to build a new a new contract with a more open and free loss we want to know more system no system which accept. the killed your creation like the one i sell or others like. so of course we need this this change so we are fighting for this for a more free. 3. is really is refusing to get a coronavirus job may soon find their names on a government watch list it's what the country's prime minister has suggested raising concerns over a possible prevent see violations on discrimination to israel has a world leading vaccination program but

a recent loss of momentum has worried prime minister benjamin netanyahu the state is now considering rolling out a series of measures to boost optic among the population they include launching a campaign against this information introducing new legislation and giving immunity passports to the an ocular could. the reasons to go and get vaccinated is that we are now launching the green passport plan 1st being vaccinated will be able to go enjoy the theatre the cinema sports events flights abroad restaurants and. new measures sparked protests outside the p.m.'s residence in jerusalem with hundreds demanding netanyahu is resignation accusing him of mishandling the pandemic and corruption the proposal to share the names of unvaccinated people with authorities has raised concerns over privacy violations and possible discrimination here swati israelis themselves thing. government should. convince the people about

not liking force them to do this manner you have to be very vigilant for the. privacy of citizens but over public health all measures should be taken of course you can't force someone to be vaccinated but you can. for beat him to enter to enter into closed places close areas where he can infect other people it's ok to do it to protect the safety and health of the people who are violating one right to protect all the others people. is really authorities are using the car it's as well as the stick to encourage people to get vaccinated a food truck outside a vaccine center in tel aviv has been giving out free pastries to make the experience of getting inoculated more palatable.

lattimer has promised to protect the country's upcoming parliamentary elections from foreign interference the russian president made the comment while addressing the state in this party leaders constantly rushkoff picks up the story. lattimer putin touched on a number of topics both in foreign and domestic politics but of course since it was a meeting with members of the russian parliament one was front and center at the integrity of the upcoming election in russia's lower chambre that is scheduled for september this year the russian president specifically mentioned that it's important to make sure there is no foreign interference in the electoral process here in the. people will decide the outcome of the vote and this choice must be protected from any attempts of foreign interference russia will not allow any blues to its sovereignty or its people's right to be the musters of their own law and

also refer to the latest developments involving us social media giants i mean we all remember the removing of donald trump from twitter silencing the voices of conservative commentators online and so lattimer putin made a point that those i.t. giants sometimes can disregard the law of a certain nation and impose their own policies in such a sensitive issue as a freedom of speech. talking about so-called platforms companies this is a serious challenge not only for us as we've seen what's happened in the us this division is happening around the world it's an ideological division this is clear if that's the way they behave in their own country how will they treat the scene as they consider themselves to be exceptional the russian president and members of the parliament also discuss the several foreign policy topics including the ricin shutdown of 3 russian speaking t.v. channels in ukraine which made it harder for millions of ukrainians who speak

russian to access information in their own native language and that was done simply under the direct order of the ukrainian president so putin is sad that this was another example of a double standard approach because the west that otherwise life stupid drama over freedom of speech issues in russia. was for some reason pretty much silent this time lattimer putin also touched on the north stream to gas pipeline that is still facing enormous opposition from the us and washington relentlessly pushing germany the country that is supposed to receive natural resources over that pipeline to back away from the project which would. why is everything revolving around nord stream to they want to force russia to pay for this so-called ukraine geopolitical project that sits in fact it's all quite simple after the meeting lair putin also plans to see each of the parliamentary party leaders in person.

100 percent grown meat that's what rich countries should turn to in order to reduce c o 2 emissions out least according to microsoft founder and philanthropist bill gates i do think all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef you can get used to the taste difference and the claim is going to make it taste even that's a good time large scale research into law grown meat production is being conducted for decades the technologies used resemble those for a restaurant of medicine and the 1st aboard a tree grew in a burger patty was presented in 23 i had dutch company a buck then it cost half to 2 150000 euro to produce but the firm sales figures are significantly lower now it's expected to drop to 9 euro a party this year or bill gates claim has drawn mosque criticism over how it could affect meat dairy industries for big and large firms world wide to the sky those

comments on the issue at large we're joined live and delighted to say by dr chris bennett from peta u.k. which is for the ethical treatment of animals and peter ritchie from nourish scotland which provides a healthy society system you both very welcome to the program peter can we kick off with you. if some governments listen to mr gates and start to encourage sent there to meet production what is it going to meet for the farming and meat processing industries i don't a government is going to encourage instead of meat production the market is doing a perfectly adequate listening to investment flowing into that sector the question really is whether it's a competitive business model we've had to call around to 60 years you know a texas special proteins or 50 years you know these alternative social protein me substitute they've been there they form a small part of the market the government i'm going to suddenly invest their own money in these businesses which have been your private investment will governments

may do is we heard the other day from the u.k. government to try and other countries to has developed some sort of carbon taxation which will have an impact on the prices of some meat. carus then with other in mind how realistic is this desire for a 100 percent love me by bill gates given that synthetic versions there are burley available today the general public at large some countries there are but others there aren't is absolutely fantastic the bill gates is talking about this because we're in a climate emergency and he's not just talking about loud growing alternatives to be threat plant proteins like beings landfills that plentiful and grow all over the planet they're some of the most sustainable and you look at the damage that rising a 1000000000 cows to cali and does it's not just causing climate change is causing the forestation species extinctions we've got the risk of pandemics too to intensive farming if you want to help the climate eat a beanbag instead of

a beef what are you going to do it all the cows though what are they going to. in the u.k. we've already seen that farming is changing people are moving away from raising sheep for maize and cows and pigs and they're starting to grow soya to make things like tofu to grow. but you know what my family was all i was how is that you will be using for me toward very well what what happens. we're talking about change that's going to happen over the years to decades so the number of cows is completely controlled by humans there who had their cat on concrete floors in filthy sheds and shipped off to the store to house because of people's desire to eat if you want to help animals the best thing you can do is leave them off your plate peter and across their little period has there been movement on this do you know for example of any farms trying to collaborate in some way with labs to

deliver components for synthetic meat production no it's not as an industrial process ury farms to do that but i think i think the important thing to remember is that beef is always a iconic issue but we have 58000000000 chickens and the one with the most people who eat chicken and chickens much more pop remember if we could remember beef consumptions falling or fall in the u.k. for last 50 years chicken consumption is increasing if you want to talk about animal welfare let's talk about the conditions in which chickens for the most part are kept most people haven't seen the chicken a because it doesn't look like farming out chicken anymore it's a big white thing and it grows to slaughter in 37 days so i take issue well this idea that the cattle you need 3 badly treated set in the cattle i look after i know what you need to be treated and they have a good life nor as long as a life as they would have if they were allowed to die in the wild but they have a good life and grass fed beef has a part to play in a sustainable future it's interesting the bill in his article talks

a lot about how rich countries should do this but somehow countries no password should continue to raise cows and eat them you know he's got loads of ideas and is some of them are a bit contradictory and i think we have to sort of figure out how we get to reduce me in some to globally and that means probably have to changing it means governments coming in beijing to i'm anxious in introducing taxation there's plenty of things we can do but as a species so it's not like something is going to happen overnight it's course. no 102030 years we have time to do this but we have to start now curtis peter brought up bill gates there and i know you're not a spokes person of course for him but just on that it's hard to argue that he doesn't have a vested interest here because he's invested in synthetic food he's funded start ups impossible foods beyond meat they're pretty big names aren't they big business big product he also reportedly enjoys a good cheeseburger he may be trying to save the planet but he's going to get even

wealthier doing and right oh i mean he's invested in and he's invested in companies like beyond meat impossible. but you don't need to have these alternatives you can just go down to a local shop you can pick up all these fantastic plant based foods that are out there now we've got. got things like lentils eans why some of the cheapest foods on the planet i just don't understand why you staying this is for rich nations the united nations and the world health organization is saying people need to eat more plants we've got heart disease cancer obesity crisis is because of the amount of animal foods people eating so what really makes sense is if everyone does move towards eat more plant i absolutely agree the conditions chickens are living in are of calling they can't even stand up these birds are so supersized that really the

farming of any animals in order to eat them is exploitation and it's violence these beings do not want to die and we need to address the ok peter just picking up on some of what curtis was saying there that the plant based diets that does seem to be an unstoppable rise in them we all have been eating far too much meat in the western world anyway i'm way. you know we need to get meat consumption down you know by certainly 50 percent many cases around 70 kilograms per person per year and it needs to harp that to be any more anyway sustainable but i think the question is is there a space in the future world we have twice as much pasta land as we have arable land is there a space for high wealth or sustainably grown ruminant meat and i think there is there's not as big a space as there is now and we need to sort of get move away from this idea that we we grow cereals and we feed them to ruminant animals which ready to go on break to digest cereals but we've got to remember that a lot of the land use

a migrant is for cereals they use them to feed pigs and chickens rather than to be so it's a complicated picture but yes i completely agree that we need to move towards a system where you know in the west particularly we reduce our meat consumption by around 50 percent and we need to be starting to do that now and absolutely we need to eat more vegetables and we need to eat more fruit than we need or not so we need to have a healthy diet but we're going to most people who read a coming off meet where they are some people for climbing reasons most people for health reasons some people for animal welfare reasons you know and there are good reasons but i think we have to we have to get governments behind this a lot of the bigger food businesses are now emphasizing plant based diets i think we're gradually moving in the right direction and and that the even she had a good system summit top 26 and really good chances have this conversation globally . how much time do you think it's going to take to research all the health risks of synthetic meat you know just reading it out here eating something grown in

a lot compared to something raised outdoors in the natural world it just signs wrong. well what we know is that the biggest howth risk is if people carry on with their western diet we know that dairy is linked to breast cancer they're processed meat and rat me is linked to our cancer and we've never seen such high rates of obesity because of what people eat and you know we've really got to absolutely change this but everything in a bottle this lino manager doesn't sugar alcohol whatever that is you can't just say dairy you know is out in its own leading to counter it you know everything tick in abundance will do that well the world health organization does classify me and processed in the as a cause of cancer so the science is robust or not but you know we've got all these options now it's not just a lot meat we're talking about we can have all these wonderful whole foods like not see these beings and lentils appease all of these foods that are really really good

for you and this is what the white house organization the lancet commission experts in sustainability and nutrition a saying that we should be to move our so there's just no place for beef in the future we want a sustainable world if we want a planet where our children can survive we've got to go big and stop exploiting animals peter is there any compromise here are there any ways to reduce c o 2 emissions. from livestock by by changing their diet to reduce me if in for example your grocery and i mean are going to be rolled out to such an extent to remake a different. you actually i mean the the. let me think inhibitors which are already in production will release me some robots that you send once you start reducing meat saying because it's a flow gas it cycles through the atmosphere then the the levels reduce you know so if you if you reduce emissions from cattle you have

a very immediate impact actually on global warming and if you can do that with technical solutions that's one way there's a recession and read the moment look at how you do that through breeding and we get meat in emissions perhaps as much as 30 percent through breeding technology so you know it's meeting emissions as a key problem in terms of ruminants cattle you know contributing to climate change there's quite a lot we can do to reduce those emissions you know by 3040 percent and that's all important to do but i would agree with carers that you know we can't simply take a tame kl solution to this we have to an integrated approach which includes changing our diets but i think we should avoid saying you know all meat you know will kill you because it's a problem with claims like that is that people don't believe them and then they get the point you know a healthy diet with plenty of age a little bit of meat is not going to kill you but we and if we don't. let me.

let me let me just i want to. just put that point to carrots because it's going to be viewers watching this right now some have their own farms have grown up loving their animals being very ethical towards that and indeed even entire nations like ireland argentina depending on farming dairy industry for revenue. they might call you inhumane for some of your comments saying we'll just leave off by the wayside and we'll just concentrate on plants. look we've got to evolve as a society we've got to look at what we're doing and whether it's ethical these animals are exploited they're kept in confinement against their will you should see them at the slaughterhouse they are drugs they fight for their lives for their survival these are sentience beings just like us with their own families their own friendships it's completely immoral and unethical to kill the food i think now we are experiencing.