Chocolate supports third world cocoa farmers and their families to buy necessities and to help their communities develop into booming economies, as they produce expensive monocultures at the cost of slashing and burning rainforest and to exhaust the land because diversification is not cost effective when faced with the multinational food corporations' demand to supply western consumers their yearly 4-9 kilograms of the sweet stuff per individual, how else do you expect the modern consumer to increase their relative risk by 0.93-0.99 across various forms of cardiovascular diseases; but, I guess it's all right because the antioxidants and F L A V O N O I D S detoxify the harmful effects of excess sugar consumption - well, if you can actually find chocolate that isn't stock full of sugar these days - it's not like you can complain about this to anyone one person, no single person is responsible for buying all that chocolate or deciding to market it and increase the sugar content to reach the "bliss point" which makes the big bucks, after all the largest shareholders of e.g. Nestlé are also corporations which probably employ thousands of people, Nestlé employs over 300,000 so it'd be pretty cruel to just cut production and have a lot of those people lose their jobs and maybe become homeless, unable to feed their families - chocolate.
