Archive for April 16th, 2007

Don’t Mess With My Chocolate.

The Chocolate Manufacturer’s Association is lobbying the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change the ingredients in what is legally chocolate.  They want to substitute cheaper ingredients for the more expensive cocoa butter. 

This is not right. Support those that are not going to change quality. We vote with our dollars. If we don’t stop this, we get what we get.

What you can do about it:

1. Only buy quality chocolate that uses real cocoa butter.
2. Go to this link and register your vote:  (complete instructions there on how to respectfully contact the FDA.)

A sampling of other blogs that have written on this subject:

Candyblog

Accidentalhedonist

Chocophile

Vote now.  Save chocolate.

Joe Raasch :: Apr.16.2007 :: Life :: No Comments »

But We Can Love. Oh Yes, We Can Love.

Love: One of those words that can have so much meaning.  Or none at all.

Television man is crazy saying we’re juvenile deliquent wrecks
Imus is fired.  Duke lacrosse players acquitted.  US is still in Iraq.  The wage gap is or maybe is not affecting the middle class.  Katrina victims not taken care of.  An estimated US $1billion could be spent on the 2008 Presidential election.  We’re all going to melt in the next ten years due to global warming. How ARE things going in North Korea? Several dead at Virginia Tech.

But we can love. Oh yes, we can love.

Have you hugged your kids today?  Called your mom? Given five bucks to the homeless guy?  Smiled and let someone on the freeway?  Helped out a neighbor?

Posturing and protesting rings hollow if we aren’t taking care of ourselves.  We can blame the government, big business, the world. Yet, until we lose the rage and love our neighbors, our friends, we will not change the world. 

 

Joe Raasch :: Apr.16.2007 :: Life :: No Comments »