Chocolate's Dark Side - No Jokes

By Robert Cohen
NotMilk.com
12-23-5

Cow's milk naturally contains an addictive opiate (similar to morphine) called casomorphin, and that is not a joke.

For many children, the consumption of milk and dairy opiates translates into attention deficit disorder, and that too is no joke.

Four pounds of milk are required to manufacture one pound of milk-chocolate, and for vegan milk-chocolate addicts, that is not a joke.

Most of the chocolate eaten in America comes from beans grown in Ivory Coast, where children are kidnapped from neighboring countries to live in slavery on abusive plantations, and that is also no joke.

If you support the chocolate industry by eating their product, you have complicity in the most immoral and unethical crime of the twenty-first century, and you area a part of the problem, and that is no joke either.

When it comes to the ethics of slavery and chocolate, Hersehy's and Nestles Chocolate Company's position is that Ivory Coast is a sovereign nation, and they will continue to buy their chocolate because they do not want to do damage to Ivory Coast's economic system.

Men and women of conscience must be one on this issue. An economic system based upon child slavery is not worth saving.

On today's very special eve in which "Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men" reverberates, take a moment to consider that little boy or girl who cries in despair and torment in a world that makes no sense. Consider that child the next time you are tempted to purchase milk chocolate products.

Unless the label on a chocolate product informs you that the contents are grown elsewhere, assume that each bite supports slavery.

A man named Che once wrote:

"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine."

Please do the right thing, and become part of the solution.

Robert Cohen
www.notmilk.com