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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
Thanks for the Captain Obvious comment. You beat me to it.
*White* chocolate *isn't.*
81
posted on
10/16/2006 12:47:17 PM PDT
by
Rte66
To: Lady Jag
Oh my!
That's.....well, that's.....I don't know what that is!
My word!
;-)
82
posted on
10/16/2006 12:49:03 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: Centurion2000; mother22wife21
I'd feel guilty for biting the ears off first.
83
posted on
10/16/2006 12:49:12 PM PDT
by
Famishus
(I wish my grass was emo so it would cut itself.)
To: GretchenM
84
posted on
10/16/2006 12:49:17 PM PDT
by
ferri
(Be Politically Incorrect: Support the Constitution!)
To: jimfree
No problem.......I can quite anytime.I quite a lot too, but don't take my chocolate!
;-)
85
posted on
10/16/2006 12:50:42 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: All
86
posted on
10/16/2006 12:52:14 PM PDT
by
mystery-ak
(My Son, My Soldier, My Hero........God Speed Jonathan......)
To: bonfire; Centurion2000
I'm just WAITING for the poster to come on and tell us how they don't LIKE CHOCOLATE! I never trust those people. I'll forgive them if they grew up during the depression. Otherwise they should be approached with suspicion.
87
posted on
10/16/2006 12:52:58 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
88
posted on
10/16/2006 12:53:33 PM PDT
by
mystery-ak
(My Son, My Soldier, My Hero........God Speed Jonathan......)
To: Rte66
You're welcome.
There are some things that are sacred!
89
posted on
10/16/2006 12:57:27 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: snugs
You better come see this.
90
posted on
10/16/2006 12:58:03 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: mystery-ak
You reminded me of the first chocolate bunny my daughter ate!
Thanks!
91
posted on
10/16/2006 1:00:07 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: Post-Neolithic
hehehe
and you say you mentioned it "in passing'? ???
92
posted on
10/16/2006 1:04:27 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: najida
That is the God's honest truth!
93
posted on
10/16/2006 1:07:25 PM PDT
by
CajunConservative
(If the Dems take the House, Nancy Pelosi will be two heartbeats from the Presidency.)
To: fanfan; All
"oh, great, first that hops warehouse in Washington burns down and now this. What's the world coming to?"
First they take the beer
Then they take the chocolate
Kinda takes away one's will to live................
94
posted on
10/16/2006 1:11:51 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Our troops will send all of the worlds terrorists to hell in a handbasket with no virgins!)
To: fanfan
Shit... this means I'll have to start drinking again! :-P
Just joking!
95
posted on
10/16/2006 1:12:11 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: Irish_Thatcherite; stephenjohnbanker
Justice itself demands that we declare a war, and take over those cocoa fields!
;)
96
posted on
10/16/2006 1:16:16 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
Beats the UN's Cocoa-for-Food Program....
:-P
97
posted on
10/16/2006 1:23:18 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: Lady Jag
98
posted on
10/16/2006 1:23:43 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("And now ... let the Wild Rumpus start!")
To: Famishus
Thought you were talking about #66.
99
posted on
10/16/2006 1:23:51 PM PDT
by
mother22wife21
("We do not have a smoking cow at this point," said Dr. Kevin Reilly)
To: fanfan
There's GOLD in them thar fields!
100
posted on
10/16/2006 1:23:59 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Our troops will send all of the worlds terrorists to hell in a handbasket with no virgins!)
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