[Sca-cooks] Dire predictions about World Chocolate Supply

[Johnna Holloway]

And now for something different--
"The world's confectionary kingpins are going cuckoo over cocoa, the  
primary--and increasingly scarce--ingredient in chocolate.  "Chocolate  
consumption is increasing faster than cocoa production--and it's not  
sustainable," a researcher told attendees at the annual conference of  
Britain's Academy of Chocolate." ..."in the future, chocoholics might  
have to work quite a bit harder to pay for their fix. The world could  
run out of affordable chocolate within 20 years as farmers abandon  
their crops in the global cocoa basket of West Africa, industry  
experts claim."

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/chocolate-worth-its-weight-in-gold-2127874.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/11/08/131163318/will-chocolate-become-the-new-caviar

Johnnae