In Twenty Years Chocolate Will Be A Rare Delicacy
Savor that leftover Halloween candy, because in the future, you won't be able to afford it. Chocolate consumption is increasing faster than cocoa production, according to the Cocoa Research Association, and that means prohibitively expensive chocolate is in our future. Since even before Choc Finger started hoarding it, cocoa prices have been on the rise, doubling in the past six years. The cacao plant can only be grown in latitudes within 10 degrees of the equator, but cacao farmers (largely in developing nations) lack incentives to re-plant their trees as they die off, according to a report in the Independent. Related ArticlesIn Sweet Breakthrough, Scientists Led By Makers of M&Ms Sequence the Chocolate GenomeKraft Seeks High-Tech Packaging To Keep Chocolate Bars from Melting At High TemperaturesInhalable Chocolate Paves the Way for a Safer TB Vaccine TagsScience, Rebecca Boyle, cacao, chocolate, cocoa content, farmers, Future of FoodCompeting efforts at chocolate giants...