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  Let's say some rice had high levels of mercury. Would you be fine with that if it was like, really hard to determine the source?
context: Love me a good cadmium egg around Easter >
  
  If I had a nickel every time I heard that one! >
  
  Talk about burying the lead. >
  
  Yes copper, this punster right here. >
  
  You guys had to steel all the good puns, huh? >
  
  Steel isn't an element you boron. >
  
  Oh the irony of your correction. >
  
  That guy took up all the oxygen in the room, and now everyone left, and I hadn’t even metal of them yet. >
  
  You guys are really on Tin ice! >
  
  All the good puns Argon, I gassed out >
  
  But, if you look at other studies, it literally changes by the week which brands are high and which brands are low. It's because they're constantly buying more beans and the beans come from different farms. If they have one good test it's because they bought one good batch. Every brand has this problem from time to time and there's not really much that can be done about it short of rebuilding the chocolate supply chain from the ground up.  Every time you do this kind of test you're going to catch a few brands out and it's going to be basically random which ones had the high numbers in which one didn't. >
  
  So what is a chocoholic supposed to do? >
  
  Find a different slavery-driven vice, I guess. >
  
  I can’t eat electric cars though >
  
  Just work your way through the Nestle family of products. Nestle loves slavery. >
  
  From the related article:
  
  In a proposed class action filed on Wednesday, Christopher Lazazzaro said he would not have bought or would have paid less for Hershey's Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate, Lily's Extra Dark Chocolate 70% Cocoa and Lily's Extreme Dark Chocolate 85% Cocoa had Hershey disclosed their metals content.
  
  "I'm not saying I wouldn't eat leaded chocolate, I just think the price is outrageous." >
  
  Sounds like something Homer Simpson would say self-righteously >
  
  This is the most lead you've had in your chocolate so far... >
  
  Unironically it likely isn't. >
  
  God dammit. Their dark chocolate peanut butter cups are one of my favorites. >
  
  Apparently it's not those that are in question, it's two different dark chocolate bars they sell, but I'd avoid all of their chocolate products just to be safe. >
  
  Dark chocolate from many manufacturers is tainted. The cocoa plants are polluted. >
  
  Regular chocolate is polluted too, it's just that the darker stuff is using more cocoa substances so you get higher toxicity
  There's no way around this until all the companies are held responsible and source their chocolate from parts of the world that aren't using leaded gas or whatever the reason is for this contamination (it happens during the step where you dry the beans out in the sun)
  Edit: that makes me wonder. If this much lead is contaminating the beans just from sitting outside, I wonder what the fuck is going on in the lungs of the locals over there?
  Really wish leaded gasoline had never been discovered. Its one of the most harmful inventions in history >
  
  After living in a small country in East Africa for eight years...you have no idea how bad it is. Carcinogens everywhere. Trash fires, complete lack of car emissions enforcement, questionable water treatment. The saddest part is that only a tiny fraction of the population is educated enough about health to understand any of these things are a problem. >
  
  Sadly, those conditions sound favorable to a certain political ideology that misconstrues nil regulation and enforcement as “freedom”. >
  
  First Hershey's now Trader Joes. >
  
  It's literally everyone. They're just going after the big pockets one at a time.  It's been known for a while now.  It's not like there's anything these companies can actually do about it. Or at least not practically. They would have to have rigorous bean sourcing that could trace every batch of beans from each individual farm and then selectively test from batches from every single farm and slowly build up a black list of farms not to buy from anymore. 
  If that sounds like a simple fix to you, it's definitely not.