Yesterday I did something awful and I still feel bad about it; I temporarily broke my boycott of candy bars and bought one. I was on my way home from school, I passed a store and I felt this great need to buy a small chocolate bar, just for once because I have not in a long time. So I bought one, feeling bad instantly afterwards, and it only tasted good for like three bites, then it just tasted like plastic and all the colourants and chemical flavouring it consisted of.
Now, I should explain why I am boycotting candy bars. Well, firstly, I am trying to not eat any of the kind of candy that is plastered with E-numbers, because I have no idea what I am really eating, which merely is scary. Furthermore, I hardly think a large intake of E-numbers is good for your health. (I know, of course, that they are not only found in candy, but candy is what I find most easy to keep away from. I try to cure my sweet tooth with home baked stuff instead.)
Secondly, individually wrapped chocolate bars are not environment friendly what so ever. In fact, according to Jessica Hoppe, "a 49-gram chocolate bar has a carbon footprint of about 169 grams —a ratio of 3.45 grams of CO2 for every gram of chocolate".* And frankly, how can one not realize that small pieces of chemical-plastered candy bars individually packed in plastic packages are bad for the environment?
But still, I shall not sit here and pretend I am some kind of completely organic and environment friendly guru, for oh look at the amount of E-numbers there are in the cookie I am currently eating just because it happened to be in the pantry, and have I yet arranged a system so to sort out and recycle the plastic emballage of the cookies from the general garbage? No, I have not. But hopefully I will in a not-too-far-away future. In the meantime I will keep to environment friendly chocolate and home-made cookies.
At least I got something good out of buying that bloody candy bar; I know now that I will not be doing it again, for I still feel bad about abandoning my morals in that fleeting moment.
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I think it's really good to not eat candy (/chocolate bars) both because the E-numbers, but also since candy or sugar, is not that good for the health in a big amount. I actually wish I could feel bad eating candy, but I don't really do that yet.
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