Consumer Reports finds more lead and cadmium in chocolate, urges change at Hershey

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Consumer Reports finds more lead and cadmium in chocolate, urges change at Hershey
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I think a large detterent for many is the price difference. Hershey's kind of matches that snack price for a little treat you'd find at the front counter. Going back to the good stuff and seeing it 3 or 4 times the price will lose a lot of people. There's a reason people say you get what you pay for though...

That's fair and probably true also!

I am buying $1 bars of dark chocolate at dollar general now. Luckily I haven't really had good chocolate, so I don't know what I am really missing, and I like it better than Hershey's milk chocolate to me. Claims profits help literacy, so I doubt it is really that great of a chocolate when you get down to it. But I like it and that is enough for me.

Chocolate made it all the way down to snack price because of slavery and a lack of safety. So I no longer treat chocolate as a snack.