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The latest and greatest GMO (from J. Stones site):
GMO chocolate
I do not eat a lot of chocolate. But a couple months ago I got a craving, and bought a dove dark bar. It seemed different from what I remembered Dove tasting like. There was a strong side flavor that Dove never had before. And the bar did nothing to satisfy the craving. So I got another, because I figured I might have gotten a bad bar. It was the same.So then I got a normal Dove bar. It had the same odd side taste, that seemed like a spike in the flavor (chocolate normally has a smooth flavor to it) but even the third Dove with less chocolate in it had a spike in the flavor that was a combination of bitter and sour, that the sweetness of the bar could not cover up. I figured three chocolate bars over two days was enough, and did not get any more.
None of the bars made me feel like I ate any chocolate. They did not taste artificial, only like it was really odd chocolate. So I figured I ought to check to see if Mars started using GMO chocolate, and sure enough they did.
As it turned out, the USDA, Mars, and IBM partnered up to create a new form of GMO chocolate, with a goal of getting 70 percent of the world’s chocolate crop converted over to their form of GMO. Even Hersheys is using GMO chocolate developed by Mars.
Dear Mars: Your GMO chocolate is SUCH CRAP that someone who was totally unsuspecting of anything noticed big time and looked for the answer to what the * was wrong. You destroyed chocolate. Why did chocolate even need to be messed with?
And worse – shortly after eating it I got horrendous deeply rooted zits that were extremely painful. The cores were solid and had to be ripped out. The cores were actually solid enough to get a grip on and pull out. They were not made of pus, the cores were something else. It took three weeks for them to finally heal. I never had zits like that before.The GMO crowd calls GMO equivalent. But GMO corn does not taste as good as natural corn, (it is still edible but not great) and GMO chocolate is CRAP I will never eat again. How on earth could a candy maker that cared about their product screw it up that bad, on purpose, and do it to themselves? Why does everything have to be GMO? Does someone out there have an agenda of defying God and proving how great they are or what? Why the resistance from food manufacturers to label their products GMO if what they have is SO GREAT the world just cant do without it?
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They might think that by cornering the market, no one will remember what chocolate really tastes like and accept their product as genuine. There’s lots of good organic chocolate on the market, if you look, but another issue is the use of child labor in the major brands.
Well to be fair chocolate contains complex molecules that the liver, for whatever reason, might find it hard to break down in various ages and stages of life. But any of the big commercial brands, especially the “Nasty” multinational, should be avoided at all costs. You can find dark chocolate that is (according to the label) produced with organic chocolate from a specific country. The purer it is, the less sugar it contains. This means it costs more but all you need is a small piece to satisfy the craving.
The social and economic history of endorphin-releasing chocolate is fascinating, and like tobacco and sugar cane, the substance had (has?) links with slave labour, was heavily taxed and even outlawed for having a pernicious effect on society…
I think chocolate stimulates Purkinji patterns; it’s a “wonderful” adjunct to watching a DVD or (God forbid) television, but I find it doesn’t go well with listening to music.
Not a good time to be had by cravings of any kind … what with the nanochips an’ dip around, doncha know …
Where’d that craving come from, anyway?
Finally, an explanation why chocolate chips won’t melt properly in our little fondue pot any more. For 20 years we’ve lit a votive candle under it for a quick dessert, usually just dipping dried apricots into the melted chocolate. Thanks, W.D.
At least now I know to track down a source for organic chocolate.