Reports suggest chocolate shortage by 2014
FRANKENMUTH -- Say it isn’t so! The world’s supply of chocolate could run short by 2014. That’s the word from several media reports, which cast blame on political tumult in Africa’s Ivory Coast.
40 % of the world’s cocoa beans are harvested there, according to the UK’s Daily Mail publication. It’s creating a problem amongst fair trade agreements.
Are chocolate lovers in Mid-Michigan worried? It depends on who you ask.
“It’s three years away,” said Shelby Albrecht of Zehnder’s of Frankenmuth. It has an elaborate downstairs bakery, below the restaurant. “Obviously a lot can change in three years. If that were to happen? We’d find other avenues to get chocolate,” he said.
Others like Karen Pawloski who visited Frankenmuth chocolate stores expressed more concern. “That’s why I’m here,” she said when discussing her reasons for shopping in Michigan’s Little Bavaria.
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