Chocolate production is a mess of child labour, toxins, violence, and poverty.

And I thought I was just allergic. Maybe it's heavy metals and a few biohazards.

A friend with an unreliable chocolate allergy turned out to have a soy allergy that the soy lecithin triggered (you can find alternatives with sunflower lecithin instead.) Once they figured that out, as far as they were concerned soy was a biohazard :-)

That's interesting. I know I'm fine with soy sauce and tofu. I'll bring it up the next time I'm at the doctor and see what the culprit is.

Seriously, a lot of our developed alergies could just be perfectly natural reactions to the amount of chemicals and other garbage ... everywhere, these days.-

> child labour, toxins, violence, and poverty

That does sound like a mess. I wonder if so called "fair trade" production is, in effect, helping much ...

Trade Aid chocolate claims to be better. And it delicious.

https://www.tradeaid.org.nz/about-us/trade-aid-chocolate/

Always a plus :)

While that's despicable, likely biased researches aren't the right way to fix that. Same apply for alleged high arsenic content in rice and seaweed, high mercury content in fish, etc.