What would Jesus say about palm oil free chocolates this Easter?
Easter season is upon us.
The days leading up to Easter are known as Lent, a 40-day religious season for spiritual reflection, repentance, and preparation for the resurrection celebrated on Easter Sunday.
The days leading up to Easter are known as Lent, a 40-day religious season for spiritual reflection, repentance, and preparation for the resurrection celebrated on Easter Sunday.
Easter is the holiest of Christian traditions which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ
Easter is the holiest of Christian traditions which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his crucifixion, symbolizing victory over death and the promise of eternal life. It is the culmination of Holy Week which includes Good Friday and Easter Sunday following forty days of reflection during the Lenten season.
While Easter may have meant a time of reflection and a return to what Jesus taught his followers, Easter today has been hijacked by merchants who have denigrated the holy celebrations of Jesus’s resurrection to eating chocolates.
The big question for Easter 2026 is would Jesus approve the chocolate merchant’s use of His Resurrection as a way to peddle chocolates to celebrate that “Christ is Risen?”
We asked the Meaningful Chocolate Company back in 2020 what would Jesus say about a palm oil free chocolate to celebrate Easter when followers of Jesus include palm oil farmers who would be destitute if not from the living they make growing palm oil. At that time the Meaningful Chocolate Company sold its Easter egg as the “only Easter egg to tell people about Jesus.”
The merchant had no answer for us.
Other chocolate merchants continue to use the name of Jesus to peddle their chocolates. As Guylian Chocolates boasts in the market square.
"With no palm oil and 100% recyclable paper packaging, Guylian offers a thoughtful approach to Easter indulgence."
That’s a sacrilegious act for Guylian to peddle its chocolates as an Easter indulgence as nowhere in the Bible is a palm oil free chocolate an Easter indulgence.
According to UCatholic there are Three Indulgences you can receive during the Easter Triduum. None of them include a sweetened chocolate like the “Guylian Seashells egg: a beautifully crafted milk chocolate centrepiece embossed with Guylian’s iconic seahorse, designed for sharing or savouring.”
It is sad that the holiest annual event of the Christian church has been degraded by chocolate merchants who dare to rewrite what Easter means. How low will these chocolate merchants go to sell Jesus?
The chocolate merchants of today should read The Bible and note John 2:13-17 as he cleared the temple courts saying “Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!”
Jesus Clears the Temple Courts
13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”[a]
Published February 2026 CSPO Watch
While Easter may have meant a time of reflection and a return to what Jesus taught his followers, Easter today has been hijacked by merchants who have denigrated the holy celebrations of Jesus’s resurrection to eating chocolates.
The big question for Easter 2026 is would Jesus approve the chocolate merchant’s use of His Resurrection as a way to peddle chocolates to celebrate that “Christ is Risen?”
We asked the Meaningful Chocolate Company back in 2020 what would Jesus say about a palm oil free chocolate to celebrate Easter when followers of Jesus include palm oil farmers who would be destitute if not from the living they make growing palm oil. At that time the Meaningful Chocolate Company sold its Easter egg as the “only Easter egg to tell people about Jesus.”
The merchant had no answer for us.
Other chocolate merchants continue to use the name of Jesus to peddle their chocolates. As Guylian Chocolates boasts in the market square.
"With no palm oil and 100% recyclable paper packaging, Guylian offers a thoughtful approach to Easter indulgence."
That’s a sacrilegious act for Guylian to peddle its chocolates as an Easter indulgence as nowhere in the Bible is a palm oil free chocolate an Easter indulgence.
According to UCatholic there are Three Indulgences you can receive during the Easter Triduum. None of them include a sweetened chocolate like the “Guylian Seashells egg: a beautifully crafted milk chocolate centrepiece embossed with Guylian’s iconic seahorse, designed for sharing or savouring.”
It is sad that the holiest annual event of the Christian church has been degraded by chocolate merchants who dare to rewrite what Easter means. How low will these chocolate merchants go to sell Jesus?
The chocolate merchants of today should read The Bible and note John 2:13-17 as he cleared the temple courts saying “Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!”
Jesus Clears the Temple Courts
13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”[a]
Published February 2026 CSPO Watch