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Simplepowa
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Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages
#19066466 - 10/31/13 09:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages The End Of An Era by Tina Nguyen 3:11 pm, October 29th
Today, two reports were released in succession, each painting a bleak picture of the future of food — particularly the future of luxury food. Wine and chocolate are now endangered species, which is really, really not good. (Amirite, ladeeeez.)
Chocolate faces the worst possible outcome: in only seven years, industry experts predict that the world’s demand for chocolate will outstrip its supply. The growing Asian market for chocolate, combined with the shrinking land available for cocoa plantations (not to mention the fact that it takes four years after cocoa trees are planted to be harvested), means that the world’s chocolate shortage will begin precisely on October 20th, 2020.
“We need another Earth basically if we carry on at this rate,” expert and professional chocolate taster Angus Kennedy said at an meeting in London, according to the Indian Express. “We are destroying the whole thing.”
Wine might fare better, but that’s a relative term: last year, according to Quantz, the world’s wine was undersupplied by over 300 million cases. Again, demand outstripped supply, with declining production in many of the world’s top vineyards to blame:
Europe, which has easily been suffering the steepest decline in wine production (roughly 25% since 2004) will have to reverse its recent bout of poor harvests well into the century to continue supplying the world—Europe, after all, still makes roughly 60% of the world’s wine. Nowhere else is wine production growing fast enough to suffice. The “new world” market, which includes the US, Australia, Argentina, Chile, South Africa and New Zealand, still accounts for less than 30% of global wine exports, and even less of global wine production.
But we did say that wine was doing better than chocolate, and here’s why: 2013 global wine production has reached a seven-year high, and experts agree that the trend will hold over the next few years, reversing “five modest harvests in a row and an exceptionally weak 2012 harvest,” a press release from the International Organization of Vine and Wine claims.
Until then, singletons and pastry chefs are going to have to figure out something else to do on their lonely Saturday nights. (Beer and cheese? Beer cheese?)
http://www.thebraiser.com/reports-world-faces-severe-wine-and-cocoa-shortages/
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: Simplepowa]
#19066489 - 10/31/13 09:59 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm going to accept this article on the account of wine being mentioned.
so how the fuck do we reverse this chocolate problem? i go fucking nuts or chocolate. no joke.
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: DebuteMachine] 1
#19066568 - 10/31/13 10:11 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Accept the article?

Chocolate do contain biochemical active molecule like theobromine.
Much drug this is, young padawan.
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: Simplepowa]
#19066739 - 10/31/13 10:35 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Eh I don't think much of this, don't care about chocolate, as far as wine goes production will go back up again.
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: Repertoire89]
#19066751 - 10/31/13 10:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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OMG preppers! Start stockpiling CHOCOLATE!
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: travelleler]
#19066889 - 10/31/13 10:58 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Most cacao is harvested and processed by child slaves in west Africa. There has got to be a better way.
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: ShroomDoom]
#19066972 - 10/31/13 11:12 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Synthetic chocolate?
I think people really need to stop being fat fucks. How else do you run out of a edible delicacy -.-
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: dark3st]
#19066978 - 10/31/13 11:12 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ya I k ow there is more than one way I'm just on shrooms so ya
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: dark3st]
#19067017 - 10/31/13 11:22 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Weird? I just saw something on the news before this came out saying that wine was going to be in surplus! Then same news station just said this too! lol I swear!! It was top 5 things that are expected to get cheaper, I believe it said that this year was a great year for wine production because of the weather?!?
California is the leading wine producing state in the U.S. — making about 90 percent of all American wine
I think it might just be around Cali then?!?
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: Gorlax]
#19067145 - 10/31/13 11:51 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think that's directly in direct porortion to wineos and the poverty rate.
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: dark3st]
#19067592 - 11/01/13 01:23 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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dark3st said: Synthetic chocolate?
I think people really need to stop being fat fucks. How else do you run out of a edible delicacy -.-

on topic though, it sucks that we're fucking the planet up so much that the idea of a chocolate shortage is reality. It'll be a sad day when i can't walk down to the corner shop and get a Toblerone, maybe even time to end it all if that day ever rears its ugly head.
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: funkerdslr]
#19067615 - 11/01/13 01:31 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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soo the business mind in me is saying who wants to build a cocoa tree field/winery?
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: hTx]
#19068525 - 11/01/13 05:17 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Don't do this to me,man!I need my daily theobromine fix...
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: dark3st]
#19068561 - 11/01/13 05:30 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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dark3st said: I think that's directly in direct porortion to wineos and the poverty rate.
Despite that redundant 'direct' this is good insight. Less hope, more drinky.
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: Simplepowa]
#19068638 - 11/01/13 06:22 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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what a bunch of whiners
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: Dickhead]
#19068745 - 11/01/13 07:37 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Awebig said:
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dark3st said: I think that's directly in direct porortion to wineos and the poverty rate.
Despite that redundant 'direct' this is good insight. Less hope, more drinky.
Lol it was shrooms last night that fucked me up and at the time redundant wording sounded just right u know?
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: hTx]
#19069214 - 11/01/13 10:41 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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hTx said: soo the business mind in me is saying who wants to build a cocoa tree field/winery?
no way dude 
just invest in market speculation instead, less work more profit.
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: ShroomDoom]
#19070501 - 11/01/13 03:40 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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ShroomDoom said: Most cacao is harvested and processed by child slaves in west Africa. There has got to be a better way.
baby slaves.
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: tito123]
#19070542 - 11/01/13 03:50 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I choose to not be a baby maker, so I'm doing all I can to not add to this sort of problem.
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Re: Reports: World Faces Severe Wine and Cocoa Shortages [Re: dark3st]
#19085592 - 11/04/13 02:09 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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dark3st said: Synthetic chocolate?
I think people really need to stop being fat fucks. How else do you run out of a edible delicacy -.-
FUCK YOU, I NEEEEED COCAINE!!!!!
FUCK I MEAN CHOCOLATE!!!!
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