Persuasive Essay On Halloween Candy

600 million pounds of candy are bought every year for Halloween, which totals up to a whopping 1.9 billion dollars. Kids around the world are enjoying the fun of it yearly, which is great in my opinion. Even though nearly everyone loves Halloween, there are still some flaws I’ve seen while trick or treating, or in the news. Whether it is wasting candy, lacing it with drugs, or unenthusiastic people, I think we need to change it. If I could change something in the world, it would be the way we give out and eat candy for Halloween. The first imperfection I want to mention is the way some kids use their Halloween candy. 20% of kids say that they eat all their Halloween treats. This made me wonder, what do the other 80% do with their candy? The sad answer to it is most of the time it is thrown away or left somewhere unknown, wasted and never to be eaten. Though this is the case for most, some actually decide to use the uneaten Halloween candy in a positive way and donate it to food banks and charities, which is something I believe we all should do once in awhile. If you aren’t going to eat, …show more content…
It makes me extremely sad to see people doing this for no good reason at all. Poisoned candy is still widely mentioned in the news during the time of Halloween in 2016. In the news you can still constantly find articles with people lacing candy with drugs, and I find this horrible, and I strongly believe that something must be done to stop this. That’s why I will create a micro robot fitted with multiple devices and sensors, including an x-ray scanner. Included within the robot, you will find a device that can distinguish multiple threats in the candy. It can be compared to a guard dog’s nose, in the way it has superior sniffing abilities to find threats. I believe this invention can help save kids from having to go to the ER and crack down on these bad