To my knowledge, that is only lead acetate. If it was lead acetate that would be a obvious additive, however the article talks about how the metals are accumulated from the cocoa plants themselves through the soil.

Ah, a fellow owner of a ‘yeah, I don’t like him too, but not that way’ feeling.

Petrochemicals are a large component in organic chemistry and types of polymers. So preservation of those materials simply for retaining as a chemical reagent is important than just burning the material.

Sounds exactly like Canada’s residential schools. Which is considered an attempt at genocide

There is little argument other than whataboutism and ‘I have a black friend’ here. I am aware it’s not a popular view on lemmy.ml, but these multiple things can be true. Western countries can totally be anti Chinese, other Muslim countries can totally be racist to other Muslim’s of the ‘wrong race’ just as much as a Christian. It does not change what is occurring in the xinjiang region. An individual can assess the actions and history of an organization without being themselves group into another organization they may or may not belong or support.

Bruh, they don’t need zionists when they can, themselves, be super xenophobic by themselves. Their treatment of Uyghurs does not inspire confidence that any actions made won’t be in benevolence to the suppressed.

Complete assumption as to why the parents did, but COVID showed a lot of cases where people defied health orders, as they couldn’t financially survive with losing a couple days of work as they we’re already so tight. And that was before we hit post-COVID inflation! Not to defend their actions, but I can see how this came to be.