This Is Not a Drill: Industry Says the World Is Running Out of Chocolate
Two of the major manufacturers of chocolate revealed recently that, ahem, we might have a problem: the world is facing a chocolate shortage problem because we are eating way too much of the stuff. Everyone stay calm. I repeat. Stay calm.
I’M FREAKING OUT!!!! According to an exhaustive report in Bloomberg, the world demands more chocolate than chocolate manufacturers can humanly provide:
As this future year unfolds, the gap between how much cocoa the world wants to consume and how much it can produce will swell to 1 million metric tons, according to Mars Inc. and Barry Callebaut AG (BARN), the world’s largest chocolate maker. By 2030, the predicted shortfall will grow to 2 million tons. And so on.
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