Maybe they are making them cadmium eggs for Easter’s.

I ate a chunky bar the other night, because you know, sadness, and then went for a run a while later. A mile or so in my kidneys started to hurt. I can’t say it was for sure the chunky bar but they haven’t hurt like that before or since. What type of villainous corporate hack poisons the thing that’s supposed to be the small escape of joy?

Also, Chunky is Nestle but still my bias says poison. I’m prepared to now receive your insults for liking Chunky bars.

Here are last year’s testing results, in a table with filters:

https://www.asyousow.org/environmental-health/toxic-enforcement/toxic-chocolate#chocolate-tables

Here’s Consumer Reports Dec. 2022 report that lists chocolate by company.

This was the report that started a run on dark chocolate from certain sources that helped raise prices to the crazy levels they are now (along with a worldwide shortage).

So now maybe they can mine chocolate for raw material to make batteries. :-o

There’s more lead allowed in a liter of drinking water in the US than a serving of any of the chocolates being reported, as far as I can find. (15 micrograms per liter.) Provided nobody’s eating a few dozen bars of chocolate in a single sitting I can’t imagine accumulating enough to cause acute harm from the chocolate alone. Chasing down Hershey, Nestle et al to hold them accountable is great, but in terms of toxic metals we’d have more success and greater impact lighting up the news about water supplies.

Just mildly frustrated that I continue to see talk about chocolate while drinking water is a necessity and consumed in greater amounts daily but rarely gets reported outside of extreme cases like Flint.

Hershey’s be like “the slaves who were responsible for putting the poison in the chocolate have been shot. New slaves are being brought in forthwith.”