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Cocoa strike may hit chocolate supply
The Toronto Star ^
| Oct. 16, 2006
| PAULINE BAX
Posted on 10/16/2006 12:05:37 PM PDT by fanfan
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Cocoa farmers across Ivory Coast went on strike Monday, holding back their crops to protest low retail prices and high export taxes in a move that could affect the global chocolate industry.
The West African country is the world's top grower of cocoa beans, producing 40 per cent of global output each year, according to government statistics, despite being split following a civil war.
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To: fanfan
We are, of course, doomed.
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posted on
10/16/2006 12:12:16 PM PDT
by
rightinthemiddle
(Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
To: fanfan
Must.....sit down......can't.....breathe!!!!
22
posted on
10/16/2006 12:12:17 PM PDT
by
samiam1972
(Live simply so that others may simply live!)
To: fanfan
WHOA! DUDE!
23
posted on
10/16/2006 12:12:23 PM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Bush Assassination Flick. Save your liberal friends a few bucks: the black guy in the tux dunnit.)
If chocolate gets scarce:
24
posted on
10/16/2006 12:12:43 PM PDT
by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
To: fanfan
Hoard the chocolate alert
25
posted on
10/16/2006 12:12:45 PM PDT
by
roaddog727
(BullS##t does not get bridges built)
To: fanfan
I'm hitting the Godiva Kiosk on the way home....
(Oh dear, this is a tragedy!)
26
posted on
10/16/2006 12:12:50 PM PDT
by
najida
(The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
To: Kimmers
LOL!
You can't waste good chocolate on beer none of us would buy!!!
27
posted on
10/16/2006 12:12:50 PM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: dfwgator
28
posted on
10/16/2006 12:12:57 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
To: samiam1972
Must.....sit down......can't.....breathe!!!!Why? It doesn't affect the supply of string beans!
29
posted on
10/16/2006 12:13:49 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: Mikey_1962
30
posted on
10/16/2006 12:13:49 PM PDT
by
Primetimedonna
(Charter member of the San Francisco SnowFlakes! We love our Tony! It's SAN FRANCISCO, not Frisco.)
To: Mikey_1962
"No blood for chocolate!!!"
Yes Blood for chocolate!
Yes!!!
31
posted on
10/16/2006 12:14:57 PM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: fanfan
This is NOT good news. (Hi, my name is Bahbah and I am a chocoholic.)
32
posted on
10/16/2006 12:15:01 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Shalit, Goldwasser and Regev, we are praying for you)
To: ferri
Every country has it's tipping point.
;-)
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posted on
10/16/2006 12:15:50 PM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: fanfan
34
posted on
10/16/2006 12:16:57 PM PDT
by
knittnmom
(...surrounded by reality)
To: fanfan
we must invade at once!:
35
posted on
10/16/2006 12:17:38 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: Bahbah
LOL!
This chocoholic is happy to know you!
36
posted on
10/16/2006 12:17:48 PM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: ferri
37
posted on
10/16/2006 12:18:26 PM PDT
by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
To: verum ago
Is that what I think it is?
38
posted on
10/16/2006 12:18:45 PM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: fanfan
39
posted on
10/16/2006 12:18:51 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: fanfan
40
posted on
10/16/2006 12:18:57 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.)
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