defend chocolate

Now that’s something worth defending.

I will now defend some chocolate by consuming it.

Food manufacturers want to make chocolate in the US using vegetable oil instead of cocoa butter. They can make this chocolate-flavored food now; they simply aren’t allowed to call it chocolate. I hope the redefinition is stopped cold, partly because I would like to be able to buy chocolate in the US and know what I’m getting. Worse, with NAFTA, it is probably only a matter of time before your revolting new redefined “chocolate” is being sold in Canada as chocolate.

If you can tell the difference between “chocolatey” and chocolate, please stand up to food manufacturers and don’t let this obscenity come to pass. What will white chocolate be – sweetened margarine?

Here’s a link to a site where a fifth column for consumers in chocolate manufacturing has information about how to make your voice heard.