HEALTH AND OT: SLAVERY IN HERSHEY-LAND

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This from NotMilk.com, something re health and moral health - and timely too.

 

By Robert Cohen, Executive Director

 

SLAVERY IN HERSHEY-LAND

 

Milk chocolate is called a " comfort food " for good reason.

This so-called snack is more than just psychologically

addictive. Regular users of milk chocolate become addicts

and slaves to a naturally occurring milk opiate that is

similar to morphine.

 

This is a part of Mother Nature's infinitely wonderous plan,

to make nursing more than pleasurable. Casomorphin is

addictive. That's why weaning is so difficult for any

species of mammal. Man's folly is his ability to concentate

milk products into so-called comfort foods and further

create addicts to that naturally occurring milk opiate.

 

What follows is the most distressing and morally offensive

story that I have ever witnessed.

 

M & M's once melted in people's mouths not in their hands.

After reading today's column, those same M & M's will melt

and fuse the most disturbing image into your soul.

 

I grew up in New York City in the 1950s, and like any child

loved candy, particularly chocolate.

 

In the late 50s, it was safe enough for a third grade

student to walk from P.S. 78 in the Bronx to a Boston Road

pizzeria, where a slice was just 15 cents and the soda a

dime. I would have plenty left over from the dollar bill

given to me by my mother to enjoy a pocket filled with

chocolate treats from the corner candy store.

 

My favorite candy was contained within a large glass jar.

These miniature models of little chocolate babies were

addictive! I did not know until recently that a naturally

occurring opiate, a morphine-like substance in milk,

casomorphin, would be the source of my insatiable love for

chocolate. I just knew what I liked. Casomorphin has been

identified as a factor in attention deficit disorder and

autism:

 

http://www.notmilk.com/aa.html

 

What made these treats special was how lifelike they looked.

Each piece was a tiny brown chewy doll with distinct facial

features.

 

Other kids on my block and in my school called these

chocolate candies " nigger babies. "

 

Black children had to endure the stereotypes created by a

world in which there were still civil war survivors. Rosa

Parks had not yet taken her famous bus ride. Martin Luther

King had not yet had his dream.

 

The 1950s was a time in which Little Black Sambo was a

goodnight story many pre-schoolers were read before bed. I

can still remember the illustrations. There were no Dr.

Seuss or Shel Silverstein books to enlighten 6-year-olds.

 

One of the most popular comedy TV shows was Amos & Andy, and

the Jack Benny comedy show had a character, Rochester, who

was no role model of equality for children of African

heritage.

 

Malcolm X and Jesse Jackson were still in school, and Al

Sharpton had not yet offended his first white brother.

 

Fifty years later, the world has changed, and much of the

physical, and psychological slavery imposed upon those with

black skin has disappeared. We still have some work to do,

of course, but things in America have changed so that

opportunities for all people of all color have merged

twenty-first century America into a melting pot of many

cultures and races. Our national motto, from many into one,

E pluribus unum, is now a matter of national pride and

reality.

 

This is not so in the rest of the world.

 

DO YOU SUPPORT SLAVERY?

 

There is an injustice, and the oppressed children of the

nation of Ivory Coast and adjacent terror-tories are being

sold into slavery to support one industry.

 

GOT CHOCOLATE?

 

Hershey, Nestle, and Mars candy bar lovers have got to come

to terms with this one.

 

Most of the world's cocoa beans are grown on the more than

600,000 cocoa farms located in the nation of Ivory Coast.

 

BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE

 

Tens of thousands of children have been kidnapped from their

homes and sold into slavery. These children plant, pick,

bag, and carry the beans for plantation owners.

 

Lawrence T. Graham, president of the Chocolate Manufacturers

Association admits:

 

" The industry alone can't fix this. We're

dealing with a sovereign government. "

 

Chocolate manufactures have known about slavery for many

years and have not done a thing about it. Perhaps it's now

time for consumers to act.

 

MILK CHOCOLATE

 

Milk chocolate is the weakness of American dieters. The

first ingredient is sugar. The second ingredient is milk.

The third ingredient is the cocoa bean, brought directly to

you upon the blood, sweat, and tears of children living in

slavery.

 

With each bit of chocolate that melts in your mouth, you

also deliver allergenic proteins and bovine growth hormones

to your cells. With each bite of chocolate, you endorse the

world's greatest injustice.

 

Sneaker and clothing manufacturers have suffered the anger

of a buying public, who, aware of inequities, refuse to

support companies responsible for such abuse. Chavez led a

movement that exposed the plight of migrant workers.

 

Slavery takes this abuse of humans to a new level.

 

Chocolate consumers must be made aware that the purchase of

each candy bar continues to support the world's most

horrifying secret.

 

Chocolate milk drinkers of the world unite!

 

African American school children are the targets of dairy

industry marketing. Drink dairy or soy chocolate milk and

add fuel to a system that perpetrates slavery.