Will Chocolate Become The New Caviar? (Chocolate supply may dry up in 20 yrs)

NPR ^ | November 8, 2010 | Eyder Peralta

[Grn_Lantern]

I guess this author has never heard of the concept.

Sadly, that's probably the actual truth.

[50mm]

Doesn’t effect me. Now if there’s a shortage of habaneros I’ll start to worry.

[Texas Fossil]

I thought this was a “serious” matter until I noticed the source. **NPR**

BS BS BS BS BS BS BS

hee hee hee hee

What fools.

[Straight Vermonter]

The report explains that African farmers are abandoning their cocoa farms for other products that are easier to grow and easier to monetize.

I knew this had to come from a pinko source. They obviously have never heard of supply and demand.

[Broker]

The free market will certainly take care of that.

[Thorliveshere]

Yes, we have no bananas! Hahaha!

[Salamander]

Good.

More for me.

:-P

[muawiyah]

Cacao plants have already been hit hard by a disease. (SEE: >http://www.confectionerynews.com/Formulation/Plant-diseases-threaten-global-chocolate-production)

I believe more than half of them are gone (that's those "dead trees" the guy mentioned).

GM processes will be used to bring back cacao trees of course, but the people who do not allow the importation, propagation or consumption of GM (that is, "Franken Food") will be left without as the old nonimmune cacao plants die.

Knowing that then why does this writer blame the problem on biofuel?

[Blood of Tyrants]

The report explains that African farmers are abandoning their cocoa farms for other products that are easier to grow and easier to monetize.

And when cocoa becomes scarce and expensive the farmers will start growing it again.

[Seruzawa]

More media propaganda most likely inserted by someone who stands to profit from the panic.

[muawiyah]

It's not supply and demand ~ there's currently a shortage. See: >http://www.confectionerynews.com/Formulation/Plant-diseases-threaten-global-chocolate-production

[Straight Vermonter]

It needs to be between 400 and 800 meters in elevation and needs to grow in the shade with LOTS of water.

[maggief]

The source is “The Independent,” which is FR restricted. (I don’t know if it’s any better than NPR.)

[ArtDodger]

Yes! We still don’t gotta no bananas!

[Texas Fossil]

Don’t worry about the habaneros, we can grow all we can consume here in TX. Along with jalapenos and picos (if you are man enough).

My favorite are jaloro (a yellow jalapeno). I have a plant in my sun room that is 3 years old and still producing peppers, when it feels like it.

[NautiNurse]

Terrifying thought: a hurricane without chocolate.

[muawiyah]

The plants are dying. That's the problem. This has nothing whatsoever to do with biofuels. Plus, chocolate will be saved if and only if the magicians who utilize Genetic Modification techniques do the job.

You have the scared nillies in Europe stopping half the world from growing GM crops. They do that by telling Africans and Asians that if they grow one GM crop ALL their food exports will be rejected for sale in Europe.

Did NPR note that chocolate originated in the Americas!

[domeika]

...and one too many Obamas!

[Straight Vermonter]

You don’t think that a high price for chocolate would cause investment dollars to flow in to find a solution to the problem?

That is how supply and demand works.

[denydenydeny]

For NPR, the laws of supply and demand are a riddle wrapped in an enigma.