Because Ghiradelli is cheap and put cow milkfat instead of cocoa butter in their 58% cocoa chocolate chips. Thanks to some idiotic legislation last year (I believe last year--it is recent) it is okay to say "pure chocolate" even if it is not. You can say "pure chocolate" even if you're putting dairy cow milk fat in your chocolate instead of cocoa butter.
I notice the price of the chocolate chips has not gone down. However, their profit has gone up because of the low price of cow milkfat. Why is cow milkfat so cheap? Because we have CFOs -- Concentrated Feeding Operations -- which put all of the cattle together, standing feet deep in their poop. This poop flows out into our waters and contaminates anything growing nearby with salmonella, among other things. That is why we have spinach recalls--mmm. And I wonder what all that concentrated cow, pig, and whatever else warrants a CFO, poop is doing to our water supply. Don't you?
Anyway, these animals are packed together so tightly they can barely move, and they're forcefed corn (which isn't what they're designed to eat), which destroys their internal digestion, which is why the animals are given daily antibiotics so they don't just die from eating corn. The tremendous amount of antibiotics in their systems (and ours), give organisms the chance to become resistant to the antibiotics, so we then have "superbugs" which will kill you because we don't have antibiotics that work against them. But it's CHEAP!
Ah, all things have results. Every action has a consequence.
In any case. I am picking chocolate chips out of the cookie dough I just made because I am allergic to cow milk products (and eggs, blueberries, and sesame). I ate a couple of the chips and started to have an asthma reaction, which is not a comfortable sensation. So I read the label, and discovered this milkfat crap in the chocolate chips.
Why didn't I read the label beforehand, in the store? I am frustrated that I didn't, but I forgot to, and had bought their higher percentage of cocoa chocolate chips previously that don't have cow milkfat in them.
What a pain!
Thank god I am not allergic to corn or soy! They're in Everything.
The cause of my asthma and newfound allergies is another topic. Suffice to say here that it was caused by pregnancy which changed my DNA.
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