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https://lawandcrime.com/federal-court/hersheys-sued-for-millions-over-dark-chocolate-allegedly-containing-excessive-levels-of-lead-and-cadmium/

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There's glyphosate in the hydrologic cycle. Doesn't get much more alarming than that.

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Agree, I was disappointed to learn that Triscuits and oats are two of the worst offenders. Cheerios, too, which is terrible bc so many parents give them to young children.

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Cheerios and Granola bars are horribly tainted with glyphosate.

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And that's why WHITE chocolate is the best.

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OMW - great to see you, Art - it's been a while.

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Hi. Glad you're still on here too. Yeah, I was gone for about a month or so.

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I was gone a while too - it's very good to know you're still around.

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Trust the science! More minerals for you. Lead and cadmium are good for your body. Really! We checked!

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Chocolate is full of lead. I found out about this because about 15 years ago a close friend of mine got stuck in traffic in a rainstorm, got out of his car, wandered around and killed himself in front of everyone. He was in no way depressed. It was so fucking bizarre that his family wouldn't let it rest. They knew there was no foul play because dozens of motorists saw him. Finally it came back that he had severe lead poisoning. That led me down a path trying to make sense. As it turns out leaded gas fumes are extremely high in lead. That lead is absorbed by beans. Coffee AND chocolate. If you consume either of these from areas with high concentrations of leaded gas emissions then you are most certainly consuming lead. I read a lot about this at the time. https://goodfoodfighter.com/why-is-there-lead-in-my-chocolate/

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OMW, what a tragic story!

So coffee, too? Makes sense. Thank you.

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Just wait till you old guys discover just how much lead you took into your bodies from the tetraethyl lead added to leaded gasoline.

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How did you escape it?

If the lead is coming from atmospheric dust, settling on the plants and soil, as reported, is the leaded gas causing that?

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No one escaped it. Tetraethyl lead vaporizes so it's not making dust. You breathed the vapor directly into your lungs. Lead is all over the environment so it gets in all of our food one way or another. Clay soils often contain significant levels of lead, hence the warning about unglazed pottery and such. As with all toxic substances, it's quantity over time that matters so if you're not showing signs of acute heavy metal poisoning, then your body dealt with it to a level where you're not in danger. Life is dangerous but that's just the way it is.

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He's right. It is the vapor. Beans absorb it incredibly. If you drink coffee source it from places you can find on a map, places in rural areas outside of urban centers. It won't eliminate it completely but will cut down on the amounts. Humid island nations or rural areas just outside of dense cities are the worst.

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Don't worry about cadmium in the relatively trivial amount of chocolate most would eat. Most of our cadmium and heavy metal uptake comes from grains, especially rice.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/debunking-consumer-reports-lead-cadmium-chocolate-warning-

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-toxic-cadmium-rice-genetic.html#:~:text=Reports%20estimate%20that%2040–65%25%20of%20our%20total%20intake,Itai-itai%20disease%20being%20associated%20with%20high%20cadmium%20intake.

Consumer Reports is trying to get some publicity.

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No offense, but I'm not trusting an article written by a competing chocolate company and posted on Reid Hoffman's LinkedIn which funds many of the NGOs working against us.

I agree with you that rice has high levels - and grains are particularly bad bc they get the double-whammy Monsanto spray.