chocolate is getting more expensive, here’s why
chocolate is getting more expensive, here’s why
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Will chocolate become extinct? The price of cocoa is rising at a record time high with no signs of slowing down. Why is this…
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Forest gardens were the original version of farming. It's amazing to think that our ancestors had a sort of spooky wisdom when it came to making things that actually last.
Yep, I'm quoting Nasim Taleb again because he nailed it. Believe it or not but our ancestors actually knew what they were doing.
Nice catch on 'forest garden' with its indigenous roots, but the 'food forest' idea also popped up in Europe where a non-gardening Englishman was overwhelmed caring for his neurodivergent brother set out to feed them from their large suburban garden. That said, the description of the food forest idea is very important, and a link to "The Great Green Wall" would be useful to your audience. Spreading the understanding that this form of farming multiple crops is helping to slow and stop the spread of desertification through say Senegal, see multiple vids by Andrew Millison, which help local farmers gain independence from annual cash crops, helps the local biodiversity… including cocoa and improve their local economics. Never forgetting that also looking back to chocolate's origins, the Chinampas of Mexico have a big part to play in food forest/forest gardening. Food forest gardens and farming must be a big thing, everywhere…
Chocolate is important, but as others have said with regard the indigenous history, I think, you missed a trick in not extracting more from Dr. Michael Sacco on the farming methods, support, politics and outcomes… it isn't just a candy bar. Finally, thanks for the introduction to Dr. Sophia Carodenuto…
What about feastables??
To briefly mention slavery in the chocolate industry as if it's only something that used to happen and doesn't anymore is pretty irresponsible. Cocoa farms are full of enslaved people including enslaved children TO THIS DAY, especially in west Africa where most of the world's chocolate comes from. Even when cocoa farmers aren't enslaved they are usually paid absolute poverty rates so that the chocolate middle men can make huge profits.
Corporate profits either override or actually determine government policy. The food of the people or the planet are ALWAYS a lower priority than sustainability.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
I'm surprised this video didn't mention hazelnut chocolates. I can't speak for Canada, but in Germany where I'm from hazelnut chocolates are very popular.
Growing up in the US, I did notice that it's much less popular in the states than in Germany, and I can imagine that Canada is similar.
But it does seem useful to mention, even though people's perception of it can vary widely. I, for example, can't really notice a difference between cocoa and hazelnut chocolate, whereas my gf loves hazelnut chocolates and hates cocoa chocolates. (she says even milk chocolate tastes like bitter coffee)
Sophia was my professor in University so it was wild to see her face within the first 5 seconds of this
CHOCOSOL is my favourite and (one of) the best artisanal chocolate in Canada.
I don’t think many people understand that white chocolate even though it doesn’t use cocoa powder it uses chocolate butter that comes from the bean so if there is no cocoa beans there will be no chocolate at all whether it’s regular, dark, white, pink or blonde
so happy to see indigenous chocolate here because that's what I grew up eating (and drinking 🥹)
I thought cacao had to grow in the shade of other trees and that the tiny insects that pollinate the tiny flowers were heavily reliant on having lots of leaf litter. How the heck does a cacao monoculture even work? No wonder they are getting diseased, sheesh.
🍌 banana
This week was the first time I was standing in the supermarket looking at the price of chocolate and realizing I'll be for special occasions only from this time on. The prices skyrocket 😥😥
It is also stainable
Wait I didn't know Americans have chocolate
The situation with chocolate is a bit like the situation with mobiles in the USA. Society itself encourages this monotony. One virus for Apple phones and the lights go out in the USA. 😅
I can attest to this! Chocosol makes AMAZING chocolate!! Gifted a bunch of it this past Christmas…let's just say I had some very happy family members
In other words, super expensive chocolate that highly paid people can afford. Did anyone check the price of that dude's chocolate? $7 for 75g / 2.6oz which is more than double the cost of a same size chocolate bar at Walmart. Time and time again it's a case of only the rich being able to save the world.
Its simply means that just pay for your favourite chocolate isn't enough anymore. People put lots of efforts to produce quality authentic Cacao. While others are just a customers))) cmon, its Time to be involved in Mother Nature deals! Iam in already – exactly deep inside
Haven't watched this video yet, but is this like the 4th time y'all changed the thumbnail 😂 why
really the only answer is to fix capitalism, which is done by destroying it
Thanks for the video
Forest Gardens are a boutique solution for boutique stores that sell hand made chocolate. It doesn't solve the commercial scale demand that exists, that requires far more product then forest gardens can provide.
This is a great intro into food forests. Check those out too sometime. People have revitalized dessert village into food oases.
Nice video thanks
Chocolate is going extinct!? By all that is good and gracious, it's chestnuts and bananas all over again 😦
Weird Fruit Explorer has taken a look at the cacao pod, if anyone wants to see a ripe pod and hear how it tastes!
The day chocolates go extinct is the day I go extinct
1:51 bermuda triangle chocolate
A chocolate chip cookie without chocolate would be a chip cookie 😂
From this thumbnail i didnt realize this was an answer in progress video! I didnt click it for a week and kept wondering why it kept showing up XD i think it looks too corporate…
8:21 – Neil is sick of Michael's shit.
this michael guy is an ethical version of willy wonka
can we not grow it in massive greenhouses here? 🤔
Considering Choclate is one of the most sought after candy, in the western world, it is impossible to go extinct, choclate companys like Mars would never let that happen, it would only lead to more power, fo choclate companys
This video was so wonderful and inspiring. Thank you
Jackie Kashian has a fun bit about killing a god in Final Fantasy and how crazy that is to a white lady.
If you left me alone in that factory I'd surely get theobromine poisoning
The fact that the same land can produce coffee, cocoa, AND vanilla yet isn’t… that annoys me.
I knew coffee and tea wanted a bit of shade, so I’d often wondered about crop colocation. But the fact that farmers could get three high value crops (instead of just bulking out the ground with other basics) makes the wastefulness of our current system all the more infuriating.
✨✨✨A COCOW!✨✨✨
– Proceeds to take the camera down 😅
It's crazy how I went to a cacao farm right around the time this episode came out 😮
i dont know if im right or not…. but this video doesnt feel the same… melissa is sad….or sick idk…
YOU GOT IN THE NEWS IN THE NETHERLANDS!!!!1111(on nos op 3 btw)
Sustainability is becoming the core to everything that matters.
4:34 when you said Latinamerica you only showed South America excluding the Caribbean and Mexico which I think is relevant bc the word and idea for chocolate comes from Nahuatl Xocolatl from the indigenous mexica from Mexico
So, yes, we normal people are not going to be able to afford chocolate in the future. These "forest gardens" will be a lot less efficient, thus cost many times more. It will be for the rich and powerful, and us ordinary people will be able to enjoy it once or twice a year. But I'm OK with that.
The cocow joke was so bad it made me quit the video… I'll continue it later I guess
I've got to say, ending it with La Cucaracha was amazing
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