We'll run out of cocoa in just SEVEN years!
CHOCAHOLICS beware, there’s just seven years worth of the stuff left.
HT and headline: Mike the Mad BiologistThe world will officially run out on October 2, 2020.Industry experts met in London last week to discuss the impending meltdown.Confectionery giants revealed there are just not enough cocoa plantations across the globe to feed the demand.They warned we would need the equivalent of another planet Earth to fill the gap needed to keep the chocolate industry going.Prices are set to soar over the next few years as chocolate becomes harder to get hold of.As a result many big-name companies are expected to fill bars that are smaller in size with more nuts and fruit because they are cheaper to produce.Chocolate taster and expert Angus Kennedy said: “There will be a chocolate shortage and there isn’t a solution to the problem. Seven years is what we think we have left.“Experts have worked out we need 2.3 globes to accommodate man’s needs for chocolate in terms of forestry and space.“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.“The Chinese love their cars and they have found that rubber makes more money than cocoa and at a much quicker pace....MORE
