What could be a high-quality, entertaining time together for parents, children, and neighbours is instead the occasion for the collection of the lowest-quality chocolate bars, candies, and other tooth-rotting, high-calorie junk, Diana Gifford-Jones says.

It’s a night when we willfully indulge children in alarming amounts of things we call treats. Halloween is a lot of fun for kids and for adults, too. But otherwise intelligent people are facilitating the celebration of a tradition that has swerved in the wrong direction. What could be a high-quality, entertaining time together for parents, children, and neighbours is instead the occasion for the collection of the lowest-quality chocolate bars, candies, and other tooth-rotting, high-calorie junk. Article content

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