Cocoa prices hit $10,000 per metric ton for the first time ever

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Difficult weather conditions and disease have affected production in West Africa, which produces about 70% of the world’s cocoa. The two largest producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana, have been hit by a combination of heavy rain, dry heat and disease recently.

Late last year, heavy rain and the spread of black pod disease in the two countries affected farming, according to a November report from the International Cocoa Organization. Poor road conditions also made it difficult to bring the available beans to port, according to the report.

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I'm going to assume this isn't because the farmers are suddenly being paid fairly.

Difficult weather conditions and disease have affected production in West Africa, which produces about 70% of the world’s cocoa. The two largest producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana, have been hit by a combination of heavy rain, dry heat and disease recently. Late last year, heavy rain and the spread of black pod disease in the two countries affected farming, according to a November report from the International Cocoa Organization. Poor road conditions also made it difficult to bring the available beans to port, according to the report.

Ah, climate change and disease.

There's even some speculation that chocolate will go extinct because it is unable to continue under future conditions, that the only chocolate available will be grown within sterilised growing areas and cost a lot.

Same thing will happen to bananas within the next ten years by the way. So in about 30 years "banana for scale" won't mean anything to young people.

It's already happened before. They will just replace the banana again like they did back then. The last banana is all but extinct now. I bet the new banana is already in development and is being made to stave off disease. E: This is also why banana candies you get from the vending machines taste nothing like bananas. They taste like the old bananas.

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Get ready for your chocolate to have less chocolate in it, and more filler instead.

“Now made with 99.95% chöcolate©️ and 0.05% cocoa”

  • chöcolate is not chocolate but a proprietary blend of the CEOs shite, CFOs piss, and some dog vomit. Non-GMO, organic, certified cruelty free!

Honestly, the shrinkflation alone has already soured me on most commercial chocolate products. Candy bars were twice the size when I was a kid - while also costing less.

These days the candy bars you get are all mini/‘fun size’ with the actual mini bars being even smaller.

Basically, it’s just not worth it to buy them. And that’s not even considering the change in recipe that they went through.

50 years from now, people won't remember what actual chocolate tasted like

Want there already a thing where they gave the farmers American chocolate products and they didn't believe it was made from their plants?

I remember a documentary touching on that subject but I think it was moreso related to the amount of sugar and processing the cocoa goes through before being sold on the market

and higher concentrations of genuinely harmful stuff in the cocoa that eventually gets to market

Ahh thats great for all the slave owners of the cocoa fields I bet.

Coffee and Chocolate will again be luxuries of the rich in the coming decades. The rest will learn to use cancer causing, cheap to produce imitations. The owners don't care, so long as the right people can get as much as they want and more.

As ever, thanks greedy capitalists, wish we weren't too chickenshit and/or deluded into worshipping you to stop you.