(PCM) It has recently been reported by some of the world’s leading chocolate manufacturers that we are actually eating more chocolate than they are able to produce. Several of the companies are even predicting that we may experience at worldwide shortage of chocolate in the near future.
The Washington Post has explained the shortage saying that we are already experiencing chocolate deficits, where farmers are producing less cocoa than the world eats and it is beginning to become the norm. The deficit continues to grow every year and by the year 2030 the predicted shortage of cocoa will be about 2 million tons.
Experts go on to explain that it is not just people’s appetite for sweets that has created the chocolate deficit as, disease, drought, and farmers replacing cocoa with more profitable plants such as corn or rubber have all played a role.
What is even scarier is the fact that it is being reported by Bloomberg that the demand for cocoa is on a path to be higher than the output by at least 1 million tons every decade for the foreseeable future. We are running out of chocolate at a very fast pace.
Makes us wonder if we should start stocking up now!