The Food And Drug Administration wants to redefine what Chocolate is. They want to remove Cocoa Butter from The Chocolate. It is the very essence of Chocolate and Chocolate requires Cacao and Cacao Butter. Yet the FDA wants to remove the Cacao Butter which is what gives Chocolate it's fantastic texture and with Cacao makes Chocolate from Chocolate. The Food And Drug Administration wants to remove the Cacao Butter and replace it with Vegitable Oil which is a whole lot cheeper. Cheep Cheep..
It is hypocritical to remove Cacao Butter from Chocolate for this or any other reason and it should never ever be done to and with Chocolate. The FDA also wants to replace whole milk in the recipe with whey. These will make it about 1/3 cheeper and destroy the chocolate making it into nothing but chocolate flavoring. Cheep Cheep

....http://dontmesswithourchocolate.guittard.com/proposedchange.asp

RESPOND IMMEDIATELY TO THE FDA by sharing your feelings and comments with them. I regret to say that you MUST CONTACT THE FDA IMMEDIATELY as DEADLINE IS APRIL 25th. I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT IT IN THE DAILY EGYPTIAN APRIL 24th AND I DON'T HAVE A TIME MACHINE.

http://dontmesswithourchocolate.guittard.com/howtohelp.asp

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MY CHOCOLATE UNIVERSE WHEN THE COCOA BUTTER IS REMOVED FROM THE CHOCOLATE? BUY REAL CHOCOLATE ON THE BLACK MARKET ? HOW WILL THIS EFFECT US CHOCAHOLICS ? MY DOUBLE CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE ? THE CADBERY CHOCOLATE CREAM FILLED EGGS I PUT IN THE CAKE ? WILL THEY DISAPPEAR ? COME TO THINK OF IT I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY THIS YEAR AND AM USING THE ONES LEFT FROM LAST YEAR THIS YEAR.. I DID SEE ORANGE CREAM FILLED ONES. WHY ?
FINALLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE DARK CHOCOLATE I LOVE ?
SCIENTISTS SAY CHOCOLATE IS VERY GOOD FOR YOUR HEART AND HEALTH. IT CONTAINS COCOA AND COCOA BUTTER. TOGETHER THEY ARE CHOCOLATE. WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE COCOA BUTTER IS REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH VEGITABLE OIL BECAUSE IT IS CHEEPER ?
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS COCOA OIL FROM THE COCOA TREE, THUS VEGITABLE OIL SHOULD NOT BE USED IN PLACE OF COCOA BUTTER ONLY BECAUSE VEGITABLE OIL AND WHEY WILL MAKE IT 1/3 CHEEPER TO MAKE AND RUINS THE CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE. SAVE CHOCOLATE
KEEP THE COCOA BUTTER AND SEND THE REST A WHEY.

CHOCOLATE IS CALLED THE FOOD OF THE GODS FOR A REASON ~

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacao

TOAST TO CHOCOLATE O CHOCOLATE TO TOAST

JOURNAL OF THE U S S CHOCOLATE

http://community.webtv.net/Timeloyd/USSCHOCOLATTAA

MAN SAVED FROM CHOCOLATE WITH COCOA BUTTER

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14412952/

OTHER CHOCOLATE SIGHTS

http://home.cfl.rr.com/janeyzee/savechoc.html

http://www.progressiveu.org/150223-eat-chocolate-save-the-planet

http://www.freewebtown.com/70mstudios/M_Ms.html

http://impressbooks.com/shelly/chocolitepg.htm

OH YES SAW MAGIC SCHOOL BUS.
THEY VISIT A CHOCOLATE PLANTATION THEY HAD INVESTED IN TO FIND OUT WHY IT WAS DYING AND TO TRY TO SAVE IT.
SHARE AND ENJOY

REMEMBER WHERE YOUR TOWEL IS AND PASS THE COCOA [_}~

sod the fda... between them and the usda they're turning all our food to dog food. "standards" mean f***-all, just read the ingredients. 9 times out of 10 you'll end up putting the stuff back.

bht - poison
msg - poison
splenda - perfectly safe (with a little poison mixed in it)
nutrasweet - poison
high fructose corn syrup - poison

and you wonder why people are fat and have cancer...

piece of cake: if a "serving of food" has n vitamins and n/2 * fat you're ok.
if it has n/2 vitamins and fat * 2 you'll get what... four times as fat before you have the nutrients your body needs?

so your body keeps responding "need food" even though you've eaten enough to gain weight. so people end up obese, AND still malnurished. COOL.

but i'm not ALL gloom and doom:


good news! yes, being a "normal" weight is healthier than being obese.

but being "overweight" is healthier than being normal! (that's right. a little extra handle is literally healthy)

being medically "obese" is still unhealthy, however. but there is more good news!

even if you are obese and you exercise regularly, you might be better off than some sedentary and "normal" to overweight.

in other words... exercise still matters, a lot- but how much you weigh? matters less than most people think. you don't necessarily have to diet (ever.)


now step away from my g**d**ned cocoa butter... and nobody gets hurt!


(meanwhile, as oprah hears about the fda's new move, she declares a jihad in the middle of her show... and once again gives everyone inthe audience a free salad shooter:

"there comes a time ladies, when we have to fight for what we believe in! that time is now! lock and load- and bring on the fatty salad dressing!")

Chocolate just isn't chocolate unless it is loaded with butter fat and calories. I mean, where would our good times go if we had to rely on low calorie no fat M&M's?

...and naturally, the fda can't tell people what kind of chocolate to make and what kind to buy.

it just means you'll have to read the ingredients of chocolate bars from now on, to know if they're crap.

"chocolate flavored" things already exist, and i feel for anyone that feels it necessary (more so if it is necessary) to buy such a thing, because it certainly isn't chocolate.

they couldn't call it "chocolate" either, but of course the fda might change that. so you may read "hershey's" in the future, and not find cocoa butter. but you won't read that on on a dove bar, ever. hershey's is so overrated, they rely completely on marketing, you don't have to travel farther than you can sneeze to find something better. PLUS it's such a blatantly sexist name :) her... she... guys like chocolate too! and yeah, i eat hershey's- because it's OK.

also, the fda still has no control over swiss chocolate, and they would sell their mothers off to a farm before they replaced cocoa butter with vegetable oil. i wonder what the mothers of the people that work at the fda would say... "you're grounded, young man!" they should be.

Hoorah for the Swiss!

I love the Lindt Truffles.

The Food And Drug Administration has extended the time to petition to help save our Chocolate from being changed. It has been extended until May 25th 2007.

http://dontmesswithourchocolate.com
Now you can get more people to send complaints to the FDA and save our Chocolate from turning into nothing but Chocolate flavoring as True Chocolate must include both Cacao, and Cacao Butter. Cacao Butter should not be removed from the Chocolate recipe and repaced with Vegetable Oil nor the Whole Milk with Whey.

I sure wish the changes would go awhey and chocolate would be here to stay.

Did you hear about the guy who fell into a vat of Chocolate. They couldn't get him out for 2 hours. He was saved by adding Cocoa Butter to the Chocolate. If Cocoa Butter was not used in making Chocolate what would have happened to him ?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14412952

SAVE OUR CHOCOLATE AND REMEMBER WHERE YOUR TOWEL IS.

PLEASE PASS THE CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE AND COCOA [_}~

JOURNAL OF THE U.S.S. CHOCOLATTAA

http://community.webtv.net/Timeloyd/USSCHOCOLATTAA


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if i fell into a vat of chocolate you wouldn't be able to get me out either... ("no **** you i'm going to live here!")

of course the fda also forbids that "ice cream" below a certain level of milkfat be called "ice cream" and instead must be called "icemilk" or perhaps frozen yogurt. i suppose their next mission will be to remove their own requirements for fat in ice cream :P

if the fda gets their wish we (americans) should all move to canada in protest- who's with me? if you don't live here, nevermind.

and if you live in the gut of this guy... http://www.network54.com/Forum/187442/thread/1177546388/last-1177659206 (scroll down a bit) then you'll probably get plenty of ice cream anyway.