Hershey is raising prices on chocolate !

I believe I read something a while back about a problem with cacao bean production. Can't remember what it was. Expect the price of a candy bar to equal the cost of a decent steak shortly.

I have to stock up on chocolate.

Stickin' it to the customers,
right up the Hershey Highway.

Wow, Motown, you are right. Another thing mankind has f*(ked up on this planet, something as simple as being able to enjoy chocolate...

A chocolate shortage is on the horizon as the cacao tree, on which cocoa beans are grown, can only survive in humid rainforest conditions.

The delicate plant is under threat as rising temperatures is sucking moisture from the soils where the tress grow.

This has led experts to believe that by 2050 the plant will be impossible to grow – particularly in the Ivory Coast and Ghana where more than 50 per cent of the world’s cocoa is produced.

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Demand is getting higher as Africa and Asia are beginning to consume more chocolate.



This number is shocking I don't get even close to that.
The average westerner eats 286 bars of chocolate every year.

Yes, this was on our local news station just yesterday.

Just thinking right before the Holidays !

I think people can do without Chocolate if it gets extinct. !!

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Hershey's chocolate.... Yes!

Fine dark chocolate...

I'll just figure out how to make a mini rain forest and grow my own

first world problems..

Maybe you'll be able to. I won't.

The end of more than an era.

Without chocolate, how are we going to fool women into thinking they've fallen in love with us?

My already dwindling hopes are dealt yet another shattering blow.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker . . . or so I've heard.

Ghirardelli !!

AWwww !

I like sour gummy bears.

A lot of name brands are raising their prices. With an improving "economy," more people can afford name brand items. This is when companies start raising prices. So they can make back the money they lost/didn't make after lowering/stabilizing them trying to compete with generics in a declining or stagnant economy.

You'll find a lot of brands raising their prices. They simply can. And people will pay them. Because they can.


Jesus. F'n Al Gore.
Any shortage will be short lived.
1. Africa continues massive deforestation. They are destroying that which allows the plant to grow there.
2. Africa (even the west coast) continues to be unstable. Africans tend to get pissed off at racist farmers. Then go and kill the farmers and take their land. But ooops, they killed the people that knew how to farm, decreasing efficiency.
3. Africa (including the west coast) continues to try to develop, stabilize, grow as sovereign nations. This means less dependence on the west for food aid, or outflows of cash and resources to make westerners rich for the sake of short term disposable items like food. This means more land turned from cash crops to food, less land used to make cocoa.
3.5 Africa already focuses a lot on cash crops. Cotton, tea, coffee, spices (and that doesn't even start with the natural resource mining, which destroys land). You think the world eats more chocolate? Or drinks coffee, tea, and wears clothing (or uses oil)? Cocoa is not their main money maker.
4. (West/ghana/ivory) Africa is the leader of production not just because of the soil, but because it's cheapest to farm there. Why? They use lots of child and slave labor.
5.Globalization and economic interdependence with the rest of the world has developed more of a "middle class" in most other countries. This simply increases the number of people who have enough disposable income to spend on sweats. Increasing overall demand and consumption.

Much like the oil "war" between the U.S. fracking and the middle east (or manufacturing), as soon as it reaches a high enough price it will be more lucrative to increase production in south america (or possibly China and the Philippines).

It has very little to do with "climate change."
That's just a headline that sells papers. "Fake news" so to speak.


Candy is dandy, and liquor may be quicker, but nothing is as funky as a hand puppet monkey.