red states rule
11-17-2014, 05:39 AM
Stay clam, do not climb out on a ledge, and do not flip out
By 2030 we could be a mob of chocolate deprived lunatics
The world's biggest chocolate-maker says we're running out of chocolate
Mark your calendar: January 1, 2020.
As this future year unfolds, the gap between how much cocoa the world wants to consume and how much it can produce will swell to 1 million metric tons, according to Mars Inc. and Barry Callebaut, the world's largest chocolate maker. By 2030, the predicted shortfall will grow to 2 million tons. And so on.
Because of disease, drought, rapacious new markets and the displacement of cacao by more-productive crops such as corn and rubber, demand is expected to outstrip supply by an additional 1 million tons every decade for the foreseeable future. Here, now, as you read these words, the world is running out of chocolate.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/food/chi-running-out-of-chocolate-20141115-story.html#page=1
By 2030 we could be a mob of chocolate deprived lunatics
The world's biggest chocolate-maker says we're running out of chocolate
Mark your calendar: January 1, 2020.
As this future year unfolds, the gap between how much cocoa the world wants to consume and how much it can produce will swell to 1 million metric tons, according to Mars Inc. and Barry Callebaut, the world's largest chocolate maker. By 2030, the predicted shortfall will grow to 2 million tons. And so on.
Because of disease, drought, rapacious new markets and the displacement of cacao by more-productive crops such as corn and rubber, demand is expected to outstrip supply by an additional 1 million tons every decade for the foreseeable future. Here, now, as you read these words, the world is running out of chocolate.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/food/chi-running-out-of-chocolate-20141115-story.html#page=1