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Future may be bitter for chocolate lovers

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Some industry experts claim that the world would eventually run out of chocolate. In other words the prices will shoot up sky high as cocoa supplies fall and demand continues to rise. The situation is suppose to get so bad that there will be a chocolate shortage with no solution to the problem. The issue is that much of the space that was used for cocoa plantations is no longer available. Instead cocoa farms are hack down and turned into other types of plantations that get a better yield with more profit. Therefore over the next few years the prices for bars will probably increase and you will see less chocolate in the bars with more biscuits or raisins or nuts because they are less expensive to fill space with. Thus the bar will probably be loaded with more sugar as well because it's the cheapest ingredient to bulk out the cocoa. In the end it 's going to be very different from the chocolate we know and chocoholics love today.

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I am reading Pollen's Omnivore's Dilemma. Without knowing this issue deeply I suspect cocoa growers get just a tiny percentage of the profit per chocolate bar/produced. I'd like them to get more, to improve the situation in their respective countries, for producers to sponsor their training and education. Scarcity of chocolate is better than glutting the market isn't it ? If the the land was bought up, the highest technology/engineered cocoa plants, chemical fertilizers and larger scale harvesting with huge machines (fewer farmers) was implemented, we would have no supply problem, we'd have cheap chocolate but few would benefit in cocoa producing countries .I think most chocolate lovers are more than willing to pay more for organic chocolate.

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