Chocolate Covered Edamame

I'm really not trying to be a Scrooge or a whiner.  But Halloween always brings out the stories about the dangers of eating too much candy from Trick or Treating. 
Nutritionists are called into play and even a recent article in the Tulsa World gave a list of candy which is TOO bad for your kids to be eating.
Of course the candy on that list is what we refer to as "junk candy".  Most studies on the world wide consumption of candy show that lots of folks prefer to spend a little more to eat a better, finer brand of chocolate or candy while at the same time relishing the good candy over handfuls of junk candy.
Halloween is, after all, a one day holiday.  When I was a kid, it was one of the most fun days of the year.  People actually made popcorn balls and candy apples and cookies to give as treats.  We were never afraid of eating candy and our parents didn't have to go through our treat bags to see what we had been given.  Nutrition wasn't part of the picture and after a few weeks, all the candy was either old or gone and we didn't have to worry about what it was going to do to us.
Then came the days of the Halloween scare.  People were putting razor blades and glass in candy, or opening packages and tainting the candy.  Parents stopped wanting their kids to go Treat or Treating.  And there was good reason for that.
Families, churches and groups started having parties on Halloween so that kids wouldn't be out in the neighborhood facing what could possibly be a dire consequence. 
Now comes the days of the Nutrition Question.  How good is it for kids to have candy?  I am not advocating that parents turn their kids loose, letting them eat and eat until they are sick.  But it seems to me that every day of the year we all should be balancing our eating habits with a reasonable approach to veggies vs. sweets.
And how come we aren't overwhelmed with articles about the nutritional quality of candy on other holidays?  Christmas is by far the biggest candy holiday, closely followed by Valentine's Day.  But those holidays don't produce such articles.  It's just the kids' holiday that calls into question how and why kids should be rescued from candy.
Okay.  So I am a little bit of a whiner.  Afterall, I have a store which sells candy.  But Sweet Tooth avoids a lot of the "junk stuff" in favor of manufacturers who take pride in the ingredients they use to make their sweets.  We work to bring the best Sugar Free chocolates to our store for those who need to avoid sugar.  We are on the look out for possible new candies which are organic, are gluten-free and aren't made in factories which also use nuts.
Our staff knows how to check ingredients and to find answers to the nutrirional value of the candy we sell.
There are responsible ways to incorporate a little sweetness into our lives.  And by the way, the latest candy item on the market is chocolate covered Edamame....so the day of mixing veggies and chocolate is already here!