This bothers me EVERY Halloween. What kind of sick, twisted mind finds a way to rationalize harming children??? My step daughter with my first husband was so paranoid that she wouldn’t eat her Halloween candy & she’d even watch me to make sure I didn’t eat it either!!! I asked her WHY she went out trick or treating IF she wasn’t going to eat her candy. She said she enjoyed dressing up & going door to door; but, she wasn’t going to take the chance of eating candy that might hurt her. She was only 6 at the time & quite wise for her years. I didn’t discourage her from her thinking. Still, to this day, I wonder HOW anyone can try to harm a child with their candy???