[Honest Nigerian]

Chocolate prices rise to record levels.
Women & minorities hardest hit.

[Leaning Right]

The folks at “Food & Wine” are slipping. It took them until the fifth paragraph to blame the chocolate shortage on non-existent “climate change”.

But maybe the author and the editors have a good excuse. Their oversight might be due to mental confusion caused by climate change.

[Oscar in Batangas]

In parts of the Philippines, local agricultural departments are distributing cacao and coffee seedlings in abundance. Of course, even with good weather and intelligent cultivation, it will take about five years to get the first products to market. In the meantime, farmers have to rely on their traditional low-return crops to survive.

[metmom]

Former White House Chef Says Coffee Will Be 'Quite Scarce' in the Near Future Cocoa, like coffee, is a vulnerable plant to climate change. And, as the 2023 Fairtrade Foundation’s Endangered Aisle report states, cocoa growing regions like Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana may become too hot to grow the crop by 2050.

IOW, ready to make it happen and setting us up with a *prediction*.

Well, the prediction about the costs going up is going to be true, but not for the reason they stated. Climate change is just the excuse.

[quantim]

“... Cocoa, like coffee, is a vulnerable plant to climate change.”

I never knew the temp in those places didn’t change a degree from daytime to the middle of the night, this global warming stuff must be really bad.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

Aldi 85% Möser 5-bar pack is still $1.99, the pre-fakedemic price. I normally don’t eat Hershey’s, but our Costco had a box of 30 for 9.97, so I bought a couple. (With & without almonds, KitKat, Reese’s cups)

[Jolla]

“the price of cocoa hit an all-time high, reaching a staggering $5,874 on the New York commodities market.”

In Costa Rica it cost $2 for a pound.

[nhbob1]

Maybe it’s their insistence on sustainability and environmental justice that is reducing crop yields.