Well I'll be damned...
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Statement from Hershey : https://www.thehersheycompany.com/content/dam/corporate-us/documents/pdf/HSY_Statement_Against_Human_Trafficking_and_Slavery.pdf?.html
I read through this quickly but I saw no statement saying that the minute they confirmed child slavery they stopped using that source. No, they go through the feel good routine of 'training' and 'utilizing do gooder organizations'...all the things that take ages to see any improvement but make it look like you're really trying. The statement also takes a lot of words to tell us how this isn't directly Hershey, but their sources who do this bad thing.
I get it. One looks to use the cheapest source of labor/materials they can. Smart financial move. But Hershey is very rich. If ending the offending source causes too much damage to the population they're already taking advantage of, then pay those sources a more sustainable income. Give the jobs to the parents, not the kids. Don't want to take the financial hit? Then raise the price you charge customers. Go ahead and double it. Triple it. M&Ms are NOT dietary staples. If only the wealthy can afford the crap...all the better.
M& M is the Mars family Corp. I have to check again but they didn't have a connection to Hershey unless they have bought each other or made deals in the last 5 years or so. I need to look again.
No they are separate companies and even sabotage one another at the merchandiser level, poaching employees and rushing into stores to kick the other out of retail space as early as July to prep for Halloween.
It’s the fault of companies like these that Halloween and Thanksgiving and Christmas “come too soon” in retail settings. Stores begrudgingly go along with it because putting that stuff out early does boost sales overall.
But 99% of retail managers hate it.
And does anyone have a source?
Hershey used to make the chocolate for M&Ms, so my mistake thinking they marketed the candy. But I feel like I'm having one of those Mandela Effects because I swear I recall going to Hershey Park in the 70s and seeing M&Ms being made in the factory tour. I guess it was their own version of M&Ms.
But for those 'sighing' about a source for the slavery claims, here is one...https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/12/mars-nestle-and-hershey-to-face-landmark-child-slavery-lawsuit-in-us
Thanks for the info.
The decoding symbols blog had a long article that included candy companies, and iirc, M&Ms were originally a joint collaboration between Mars and a (former?) Hershey exec whose last name also started with M. Later Mars bought out the other guy’s share and now Mars owns M&Ms outright, while Hershey competes by using Reece’s Pieces (which is another rabbit hole of Spielberg ET pedophilia)
Thanks. More to look into.
from Wikipedia: “The two 'M's represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr., the founder of Newark Company, and Bruce Murrie, son of Hershey Chocolate's president William F. R. Murrie, who had a 20 percent share in the product.”
On the decoding symbols homepage, the author warns in the description for the article Squid Game, Venus, Mars, E.T. that it’s very long. But here’s the part about M&Ms:
Sigh.
Wrong company.
I swear, some times….
And do we even have a source for this?
Sorry for my honest mistake. Here is a source, so you cease swearing and signing now. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/12/mars-nestle-and-hershey-to-face-landmark-child-slavery-lawsuit-in-us
This is the true end goal to capitalism though. Make the most profit possible, essentially any way possible without losing money in the process. It's always about quarterly profits and continuing to increase them. These companies are acting exactly how capitalism expects them to, and more money is power in our world.