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How Hershey’s Made Its First Vegan Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Chocolate Bars

Ms. Cat

The Hershey Company gets into dairy-free chocolate in a big way with the nationwide launch of Reese’s Plant-Based and Hershey’s Plant-Based Extra Creamy with Almonds and Sea Salt.


How Hershey’s Made Its First Vegan Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Chocolate Bars

I tried one of these earlier. It’s too much chocolate for me. I’ve noticed that there’s Reese’s Plant-Based Miniature Peanut Butter Cups but haven’t seen them at the local Walmart. It’s probably for the best, as they’re around the same calories as the regular ones.

Ecuador’s exporters caught between US and China after debt deal

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Ecuador’s exporters caught between US and China after debt deal

The agreement, signed by the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and the Ecuadorean government just days before Donald Trump left office in January, envisages the US buying oil and infrastructure assets in Ecuador on the understanding Quito uses the proceeds to pay off its debt to China.

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Adam Boehler, the recently departed chief executive of DFC, has described the deal as a “novel model” to eject China from the Latin American nation.

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