Don’t Mess with My Chocolate!
Hurry up and tell the FDA not to allow the standards for chocolate to be changed. Comments close on April 25, 2007 May 25, 2007 (updated with new date), so there isn’t much time.
I caught wind of this over on Slashdot, and followed the links to the Don’t Mess With Our Chocolate website. And from that website, here’s the basic problem:
Their plan is to change the basic formula of chocolate in order to use vegetable fat substitutes in place of cocoa butter, and to use milk substitutes in the place of nutritionally superior milk. These changes will have adverse effects on the eating, physical and nutritional quality of chocolate
I’m a big fan of good chocolate. Not Hershey’s. I love dark chocolate, and eating some of the good stuff is far more satisfying than eating a larger quantity of the cheap kind. We don’t need junk masquerading as chocolate. If manufacturers want to make really bad chocolate, they can just call it something else!
The Don’t Mess With Our Chocolate website has instructions you can follow to help get the point across. Go do it quickly. It only takes a couple minutes.
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