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Hershey sued over chocolate containing heavy metals

reuters.com

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"In a proposed class action filed on Wednesday, Christopher Lazazzaro said he would not have bought or would have paid less for Hershey's Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate, Lily's Extra Dark Chocolate 70% Cocoa and Lily's Extreme Dark Chocolate 85% Cocoa had Hershey disclosed their metals content."

I'm curious how much less he would have paid if they had disclosed the lead poisoning. A Hershey bar is like 3 bucks. Maybe the lead version is worth a buck fifty, at most?

The objective is for the plaintiff to demonstrate that he has standing. His standing is the loss of real money he paid for a product, and he can easily demonstrate how much he paid. If he decided to base his standing on something like "I might one day develop a health problem" then it would be far more complicated for him to prove.

I doubt that Lazazzaro has much of an academic economic focus on the figure he would pay. It's just that he would have paid less than he did.

Since the study was released; I was waiting for a class action against Hershey to occur. The original study I believe used California defined lead and cadmium levels though, so I assumed it would have occurred in that state under the terms of no warning on the chocolate.

Aldi's (Grocery Store chain) chocolates were low in heavy metals for those interested.

Won't blow steam on what is clearly outrageous but in addition to the subject itself, what is this paragraph doing in this article?

>Some studies suggest that the antioxidants and relatively low levels of sugar in dark chocolate could help prevent cardiovascular disease.

Right. Is this a chatGPT artifact? Maybe one can test it by testing prompts in chapGPT to see if it leads to a similar anomaly.

It donate demonstrates the irony that folks who justify eating Hershey’s chocolate for its health benefits could be seriously harming their health due to heavy metals.

It's pretty simple, the dude in the article was consuming dark chocolate. I suppose they were implying it's a commonly pushed idea that the dark chocolate is healthy because it has a lot less sugar and has some pluses like antioxidants. That would push people to buy it like the dude suing because of heavy metal levels in Hershey's dark chocolate.

There is no reason to go into the motivation of chocolate consumption.

Yes, it's ironic if you get poisoned by lead by eating something you think is saving you from calories -- but that to me is almost a deviously mocking tangent to take in a news article, and not a plain innocent fact.

Unless of course Reuters here is trying to capture some of the standup/news market share.

Milk chocolate doesn't have high levels of heavy metals, but dark chocolate does. Dark chocolate has purported health benefits, but milk chocolate does not. The plaintiffs allege they bought dark chocolate because they thought it would be good for their health, but if they knew about the heavy metals contained in the dark chocolate, they would not have purchased it.

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