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The bitter truth behind the chocolate in your Easter basket

"The average American eats around 11 pounds of chocolate each year, and the weeks leading up to Easter show the second biggest United States sales spike of the year next to Halloween - 71 million pounds according to a 2009 Neilsen report. A recent press release from Kraft claims that worldwide, more consumers purchase chocolate during Easter than any other season.

So how does a chocolate lover ensure that the treats filling their family's Easter baskets are not supporting a life of slavery for a child half a world away?"

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Very interesting article

Civilization and Culture at War

There's a war going on, and it's dangerous out there...

Now, America, according to Oscar Wilde, though not talking about culture directly, said:

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

As both barbarism and decadence denote a lack of culture, and if we believe Wilde that there's no civilization to be found there, this would make America immune from the war...

Nah. Forget I said that.

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