World may run out of chocolate by 2020, according to "industry experts"

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The world will run out of cocoa - the basic ingredient of chocolate - within the next seven years due to pressures of rising global demand, experts have warned.

Industry experts who met at the British Library in London last week have even predicted the exact date of the impending meltdown - October 2, 2020.

"There will be a chocolate shortage and there isn't a solution to the problem. Seven years is what we think we have left," chocolate taster and expert Angus Kennedy said.

They warned that world would need the equivalent of another planet Earth to fill the gap needed to keep the chocolate industry going.

"We need another Earth basically if we carry on at this rate. We are destroying the whole thing. The problem we've got is that much of the space that was used for cocoa plantations is no longer there," Kennedy said.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/c...-world-will-run-out-of-cocoa-by-2020/1179482/

Shit, time to stockpile on Hershey before the Chocapocalypse.
 

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Solution: Eat less chocolate.
It's only going to make you fat anyway.

Personally, I don't care much about it tho.
Dun like it anyway.

How Dare YOU! :angry: How would you feel of their was a world shortage on [insert your favorite food here] Femboys shit i cant think of right now. Chocolate isn't a choice it's something your born with! Tbh im more affected by this then the government shutdown.:cry:
 

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How Dare YOU! :angry: How would you feel of their was a world shortage on [insert your favorite food here] Femboys shit i cant think of right now. Chocolate isn't a choice it's something your born with! Tbh im more affected by this then the government shutdown.:cry:

The only things that have chocolate on them is Jaffacakes.
And that's teh only thing I really really love.
Seeing that their only sold in the UK, I can't miss then due to being unable to get them.

And yeh I agree.
Government shutdown is an perfectly valid excuse to party c:
 

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Uhm, what's to stop people from growing more cocoa? From what I can tell this is a space issue and not a matter of cocoa suddenly disappearing.
 
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Uhm, what's to stop people from growing more cocoa? From what I can tell this is a space issue and not a matter of cocoa suddenly disappearing.
"They warned that the world would need the equivalent of another planet Earth to fill the gap needed to keep the chocolate industry going."
So in a way, you're completely correct. If they had the space, they would have no worries supporting the demand. As it is now, they can grow it, but not at a rate that will keep the shelves stocked.
 

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In recent news: Meteors of flaming red chocolate have plummeted towards the earth and caused grave damage to residential neighborhoods. A large meteor landed in the Great Lakes and produced a massive wave of chocolate that flooded Chicago and is continuing to devastate eastern Iowa, northern Indiana, and some parts of Ohio. Rescue crews are busy at work hauling out survivors out of the mess that scientists are saying is the worse catastrophe to ever befall the earth.
 

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This is seriously crazy. To know that such natural resource will be extinct is just as bad as certain animals will be extinct.
 

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Just get rid of rainforests - all they really are is a breeding place for murderous, poisonous animals that want you dead. You take care of'em and all they can pay you back with is death by means of venom injection. Cocoa on the other hand... :tpi:

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