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Well Vanessa, you will have all the girls on here now going out and buying as 
much chocolate as they can carry. Knowing Clare and Carol, they will probably 
go and pinch a shopping trolley and fill it up to the top. I must agree with 
you Vanessa, I to heard  a programme on radio 4 the other day saying the same. 
Just think of all those slim girls in a few years time. yummy. Oops That is a 
yummy for the chocolate not the girls. You no I'm not like that. hehehehe

love Malcolm. xxx.

Worldwide cocoa shortage to send chocolate prices soaring ? 4 hours ago

Cocoa shortage.
Make the most of your chocolate treats this Christmas and start stock-pilling 
those Celebrations tins, they may not be around for much longer as experts 
predict that a cocoa crisis is imminent.

We will have a million-ton cocoa shortage within eight years, forcing the price 
of chocolate to rise significantly.

Industry insiders say the growing demand for chocolate in areas where it wasn?t 
previously popular means cocoa farmers need an area the size of the Ivory Coast 
to produce more cocoa.

Angus Kennedy, a leading British chocolatier, told The Express: ?Part of the 
problem is the growing demand for chocolate in Asia where countries such as 
China are turning more towards Western tastes.?

If they do not receive more help to boost cocoa bean crops, prices will push 
chocolate into a delicacy price bracket and we will be forced to find less 
appealing chocolate substitutes in the market that ?don?t melt in your mouth? 
says Kennedy.

[See also: Can you identify these famous chocolate bars?]

This could make the price of chocolate leap as manufacturers will be forced to 
increase the use of nuts and other fillings to add bulk to their bars.

The topic of the looming cocoa shortage was a major issue at a recent 
confectionery conference, Confection Expo, in November.

Kennedy points out that the demand is not the only reason for the potential 
chocolate crisis but because of the lack of knowledge of how to produce the 
best yield of cocoa beans and look after them.

?Our ability to produce more cocoa is extremely limited at the moment and 
that?s because the farming practices are still archaic.?

But how will this affect the chocolate you buy on the high street?

It?s more likely that the chocolate favourites from Mars, Cadbury and Nestle 
will suffer. Last year London chocolatier Marc Demarquette warned: ?Galaxy, 
Creme Eggs, every kind of £1 chocolate bar will be a thing of the past.?   

While John Mason, founder of the Ghana-based Nature Conservation Research 
Council, forecast something much worse: ?In 20 years chocolate will be like 
caviar. It will become so rare and so expensive that the average Joe just won?t 
be able to afford it.?
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