Nicholas

=Focus Question: __How are the treatments that are used to produce chocolate affecting our health?__=

Does your world depend on chocolate? Well think about it, what is your favorite type of chocolate? Is it milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or white chocolate? If you depend on milk or white chocolate, you depend on MANY chemicals. If you eat a lot of chocolate, you are eating a lot of chemicals like pesticides. Chocolate is a very unhealthy snack. Pesticides are widely used on cocoa trees. When you buy chocolate try to buy the more expensive one because it contains less chemicals. Pesticide are also used on cocoa beans,so that means that chocolate or anything that contains chocolate contains pesticides. Pesticides can't be used on cocoa beans because it can harm the cocoa beans and the cocoa trees.

Pesticides are not supposed to be used on cocoa trees or else it will harm it. Cocoa farmers need the money,so they can't use pesticides on the cocoa trees or beans. Cocoa farmers can't use pesticides because it will harm the beans or trees that means they can't sell it. Farmers need to use pesticide to kill the bugs,but it will harm the trees and beans. Not using pesticides will cause both bad and good problems. The good side is that no chemicals are in the chocolate. The bad side is that bugs are harming the plants on the beans



Not using pesticides is more of a good thing because no chemicals are added in chocolate. Farmers should not use pesticides on cocoa trees. Cocoa farmers should have another way to block off bugs. They should have a net around it. They should also have a clear tent over the tree. The cocoa farmers should have no pesticide on cocoa trees. Cocoa farmer should not use pesticides at all on cocoa trees and they should find another way to keep out bugs. The clear tent will keep out bugs and the tree will also have some sunlight.

Everyone should eat less chocolate. You should only eat about five chocolate bars a month or try to only eat chocolate once a week or not at all. Pesticides and chemicals are added to chocolate. It is better to not eat chocolate at all. Chocolate has MANY chemicals contained in the chocolate. Chocolate is a very addictive treat to everyone in the world.