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About National Cashew Day

National Cashew Day is an unofficial holiday with no sponsor, but could easily become a tour-de-force with human rights advocates. The largest supplier of cashews in the world is Vietnam uses forced labor to harvest its crops, disguising it under drug treatment facilities, and the workers as patients.

According to Human Rights Watch, cashew “production occurs in so-called drug “treatment” centers. Forty thousand drug users are detained at any one time in Vietnam, and forced labor is their main “treatment.””

Basically, people trying to recover from drug abuse are used as forced labor to harvest the cashew crops.

Human Rights Watch talked to men and women who had been locked inside these drug “treatment” centers, some when they were children. They report grueling work, being shocked with electrical batons, beaten by staff and held for months in locked “punishment rooms. A month’s work might net them between 75 cents and $7.50, after deductions for food, lodging and “management fees.” Some even left the centers owing center officials for these “expenses.” Many returned home battered, in broken health. And many were forced to process cashews.”

The cashew continues to be a favorite nut for its sweet flavor. Human Rights advocates ask that on National Cashew Day consumers find out where their cashews are coming from be

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