I love chocolate. I always have. Even throughout my strongest health efforts I have never managed to give up chocolate completely and you know what, I don't think I have to. Chocolate in moderation is a-okay in my books. I repeat: in moderation
Have you seen the movie "Ever After"? First of all, it's adorable. Second of all, there is a scene in which the prince offers one of the girls, Marguerite, a piece of chocolate. Her reaction to the delectable substance is wonderful. When he asks if she likes it, she says something like "Like it? Why it's positively sinful." Haha! It is. Positively. I often feel this way about chocolate.
Sadly, the next article I have to share with you does not bode well for my love of chocolate.
It seems we need to look a little deeper into where we are getting our sweet treats from, and I don't mean "are your Belgium chocolates from Belgium?" I mean, where are your chocolate suppliers getting their beans from? Last year, when I was in Utah, my mother-in-law took me to this fantastic chocolatier place that did all their chocolate production themselves. From growing and gathering the cacao bean itself, to shipping it, to breaking it down to create the most divine truffle chocolates or baking chocolate. Stopping by their store was a great way of learning about what goes into making chocolate and learning how the quality can be affected.
I won't be able to watch this documentary when it airs because we only have local television channels here in HK but I would love to know what your reactions are. Perhaps an effort to buy chocolate more conscientiously will not only help draw attention to this disturbing issue of child slaves, it might just help with the "in moderation" part of my "chocolate is a-okay" plan.
