789: Chocolate | Skeptical Sunday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Is chocolate your guilty pleasure? Until you listen to this episode, we can almost guarantee you're not feeling guilty enough about it! But don't fret, because we'll also provide resources to help alleviate some of that guilt and allow you to become part of the problem's solution!
Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and fact-checker, comedian, and podcast host David C. Smalley break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions.
On This Week's Skeptical Sunday, We Discuss:- How the production and consumption of chocolate perpetuates a range of negative impacts, including child trafficking, labor exploitation akin to slavery, deforestation, and climate change.
- The chocolate industry brings in $100 billion annually, but the farmers who produce it make less than $1 a day toiling long hours in the grueling heat, constantly exposed to poisonous pesticides in unsafe conditions.
- High demand for labor is met by children — some as young as five — who are forced into it either by their desperate families or opportunists who abduct and sell them.
- How, despite the health benefits of cocoa, there has been a high food safety concern regarding the presence and levels of heavy metals such as nickel, cadmium, chromium, and lead, both in cocoa beans and cocoa products including, cocoa butter, cocoa liquor, cocoa powder, and chocolates.
- How consumers can contribute to positive change by being more mindful of where their chocolate comes from and demanding ethical and sustainable production practices. Vote with your dollars for conscientious producers of chocolate who observe fair trade practices!
- Connect with Jordan on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. If you have something you'd like us to tackle here on Skeptical Sunday, drop Jordan a line at jordan@jordanharbinger.com and let him know!
- Connect with David at his website, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, and make sure to check out The David C. Smalley Podcast here or wherever you enjoy listening to fine podcasts! If you like to get out of your house and catch live comedy, keep an eye on David's tour dates here and text David directly at (424) 306-0798 for tickets when he comes to your town!
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| 0:00.0 | Special thanks to Peloton for sponsoring this episode of the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger, and this is Skeptical Sunday, |
| 0:11.8 | a special edition of the Jordan Harbinger Show where fact checker and comedian David C. Smalley and I |
| 0:16.8 | break down a topic that you might never have thought about, |
| 0:19.1 | open things up, debunk common misconceptions, |
| 0:21.7 | topics such as why the Olympics are kind of a sham, |
| 0:24.4 | expiration dates on food are kind of nonsense, |
| 0:26.5 | why tipping makes absolutely no sense, recycling, |
| 0:29.3 | ban foods, toothpaste, chemtrails, and a whole lot more. |
| 0:32.6 | Normally on the Jordan Harbinger Show we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's |
| 0:36.5 | most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to |
| 0:40.7 | impact your own life and those around you. We have long form interviews and conversations |
| 0:44.9 | with the variety of amazing folks from spies to CEOs, athletes, authors, thinkers, and performers. |
| 0:50.8 | If you're new to the show or you want to tell your friends about the show, |
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| 0:56.9 | They're some of our favorite episodes organized by topic. |
| 0:59.7 | New listeners can always get a taste of everything we do here on the show. |
| 1:02.8 | Topics like persuasion and influence, negotiation and communication, |
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| 1:10.7 | Just visit JordanHarbinger.com slash start or take a look in your Spotify app to get started. |
| 1:15.9 | Today on Skeptical Sunday, chocolate, that bitter sweet dopamine release that makes you |
| 1:20.4 | care less about how terribly your ex treated you. We love to say it's our vice and call it a guilty |
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