“Did you hear, a bunch of Americans are suing Hershey”
“For their use of forced child labor in producing cocoa, right?”
“What else could be more upsetting than that?”
The problem isn’t that it’s not upsetting, it’s that child labor is not illegal (at least, not in a way that could be brought as a domestic civil suit) as long as it’s happening overseas.
I went to Hershey, PA a number of years ago with my partner. We were excited to see the Hershey factory because we were bored people living in the midwest. We went on their free propaganda tour, the beginning of which they say you’ll receive free treats once you complete it, and suffered through the smarmy history of candy capitalism.
At the end they gave us a tootsie roll. Not the big one, just one of the little ones you get in those bags of 100s.
lmao, terrible!
I was dicking around the PNW and went to the Tillamook factory. “free tour! treats at end!”
the tour is indeed free, and it ends with a variety of types of cheese cubes at the end. and a shitload of them. you can totally mess your insides up just before getting back in th car, because there’s not much else to do right there.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ would do again A+++
On one hand, that is weak of Hershey.
On the other, actual human beings got so upset about it that they hired lawyers to file a lawsuit over it? Some people need to get out more.
I imagine they aren’t actually that upset and are just looking for a way to make some money?
If you read the very first sentence of the article, it says that the lawsuit is a “class action lawsuit”. Now I’m no lawyer but I know that a class action lawsuit means that the lawsuit is on behalf of a larger party. In this particular lawsuit, I would think that it would mean that the lawsuit is in defense of any person who has ever purchased a reeses product.
Here is the filed legal document of the document. Turn to page 12. https://interactive.wtsp.com/pdfs/hershey-lawsuit-PACER.pdf
The filed lawsuit document says that the lawsuit is on behalf of “All consumers within the State of Florida who purchased one of Products, as detailed herein, within the statute of limitations period”. This means that if the lawsuit is successful, anyone in the state of Florida who has purchased a reeses product within the statute of limitation will be entitled to receive compensation. In conclusion, I believe that the lawsuit isn’t “just looking for a way to make some money”, because the lawsuit is meant to compensate every person who was duped by a reeses product.
What you said was incredibly reactionary. The narrative that people are trying to get rich on frivolous lawsuits was Reaganist policy. Tort law reform is a core principle of the Republican party. Right wingers have propagandized people into believing that consumer protection lawsuits are bad because they don’t want capitalists to be able to face legal consequences.
Good
My treats don’t look exactly like the picture! You’ll be hearing from my lawyer, Mr. Hershey.
Idk but where would you draw the line? All of those packages have designs that are not on the actual candy so like why would Hershey feel the need to lie about their food?
Just because you wouldn’t do it doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done. Courts are one of the ways to actually enforce laws such as in advertising.
Companies should be forced to use the worst looking version off the assembly line for their marketting photos.
