Re: I saw this at a candy store...
...some will think this is strange. I did.
It is basically just sugar, food color, fruit extracts, and gelatin, a tasteless solid substance, extracted from the collagen found inside animals' connective tissue.
Do your nephew a favor and give him a strawberry instead.
Haribo was one of the German companies which employed forced or slave labor in its factories during WWII and has refused to contribute to a German government foundation called “Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future”.
The money from this foundation is supposed to be divided among an estimated 240,000 surviving slave laborers, who lived and worked in concentration camps, and more than 1 million forced laborers.
Former slaves were slated to receive about $7,500 and forced laborers $2,500 apiece. They will probably never see a penny.
There is a concerted effort by many of the corporations involved to evade responsibility and it is doubtful if they will ever pay the survivors. They have been using delay tactics in the courts for years waiting for them all to die.
For this reason I don't buy there products.
Sorry for posting this in the forum, but there are German companies (such as the Deutsche Bank, Lufthansa, Volkswagen & Daimler) that have been cooperative in these efforts, Haribo is just not one of them.
Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Post and the German railways have also expressed willingness to help, but the German government decided that since they were state-owned until recently, the government's contribution would cover them. The government has been reluctant to allow the contributions because the payments are tax-deductible, meaning that taxpayers will end up paying three-quarters of the total in any case.
