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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: Bahbah
41
posted on
10/16/2006 12:19:40 PM PDT
by
bonfire
To: Bahbah
Where is The Man when you need him?
42
posted on
10/16/2006 12:20:04 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
Thanks for the update. I have called in a chocolate IV.
ps..that was a close one
43
posted on
10/16/2006 12:20:04 PM PDT
by
duck duck goose
(Proud daughter of a retired Air Force CMSGT.)
To: fanfan
I just bought a giant can of hot chocolate mix, and i'll lay in some sugar free stuff for me (gag, but when you're desperate....)
Bring it on. :D
44
posted on
10/16/2006 12:20:21 PM PDT
by
Shimmer128
(My beloved is mine and I am his. Song of Solomon 2:16)
To: fanfan
They will pry my Teuschers from my cold dead hands
45
posted on
10/16/2006 12:22:42 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: fanfan
40% of the global supply going offline? I think that translates roughly to about a 250% price increase.
46
posted on
10/16/2006 12:23:37 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
("Be polite and courteous, but have a plan to KILL everybody you meet.")
To: sweetliberty
47
posted on
10/16/2006 12:24:41 PM PDT
by
null and void
("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
To: mother22wife21
Time to send in the troops.
48
posted on
10/16/2006 12:24:44 PM PDT
by
Famishus
(I wish my grass was emo so it would cut itself.)
To: fanfan
Is that what I think it is?
you mean Kim Jong Il's perception of North Korea?
49
posted on
10/16/2006 12:24:47 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: fanfan
So france will have to kill some more unarmed civilians?
50
posted on
10/16/2006 12:25:06 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: Centurion2000
It's gotta be a Vast Left-wing Conspiracy!!!
51
posted on
10/16/2006 12:25:20 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: DTA
Hopefully, there will be no coffee and scotch shortage. 6.7 'quake on the Kona coast...
52
posted on
10/16/2006 12:25:22 PM PDT
by
null and void
("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
To: fanfan
OOH, It's going to get ugly around PMS time.
53
posted on
10/16/2006 12:26:11 PM PDT
by
CajunConservative
(If the Dems take the House, Nancy Pelosi will be two heartbeats from the Presidency.)
To: Mikey_1962
No blood for chocolate!!!Wanna bet???
54
posted on
10/16/2006 12:26:29 PM PDT
by
null and void
("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
To: verum ago
LOL!
No I meant a waterfall made of milk chocolate.
A chocolate fall!
55
posted on
10/16/2006 12:26:39 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: Famishus
Make sure they seize this chocolate nativity scene. there's 24,000 pounds of chocolate secured right there.
56
posted on
10/16/2006 12:27:03 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
("Be polite and courteous, but have a plan to KILL everybody you meet.")
To: fanfan
No war for cocoa!.../sarc
57
posted on
10/16/2006 12:27:03 PM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(This is no time for bleeding hearts, pacifists, and appeasers to prevail in free world opinion.)
To: Mikey_1962
No blood for chocolate!!! So your wife has never threatened to hurt you if you don't get her some chocolate while on PMS? Amazing ;)
58
posted on
10/16/2006 12:28:21 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
("Be polite and courteous, but have a plan to KILL everybody you meet.")
To: Centurion2000
That's white chocolate.
It's not the same.
*sob*
59
posted on
10/16/2006 12:28:23 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
Mayor Ray Nagin is deeply saddened He won't be able to have his chocolate city!!
60
posted on
10/16/2006 12:28:37 PM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(DBM - still trying to create a nonexistent legacy for BJ Clinton.)
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