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Global warming and the threat to chocolate

Posted from Green Daily 50 days ago
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Filed under: Food, News, Climate ChangeThis is really a reason to hold a bake sale. According to a CNN story, we are in danger of losing chocolate! It could become as rare and expensive as caviar in the next twenty years, which would mean the end of the candy aisle in Whole Foods. Of course, it's because of overfarming cocoa plantations in West African. In order to meet global demand, farmers use unsustainable practices to grow more cocoa beans faster. The soil is rapidly being depleted. That means they have to clear more rain forest to find land to farm, and ultimately making global warming w...