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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 happening? In this video, Melissa unearths the bitter truth about chocolate and searches for how we can have a future with chocolate.

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CREDITS
Produced by Melissa Fernandes
Research Assistance by Heidi Lee
Video Editing by Joe Trickey
Motion Design by Sabrina Cruz
Sound Design by Joe Trickey
Special Thanks to
Dr. Sophia Carodenuto
Dr. Michael Sacco, Chocosol
The Staff at Chocosol

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RECOMMENDED READING
The Future of Chocolate (2012) by Harold Schmitz, Howard-Yana Shapiro via JSTOR Origin Published in Scientific American

Seeing Through Transparency in the Craft Chocolate Industry (2023) by Sophia Carodenuto http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr.2023...

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 no choccy in the choccy chip cookies?
01:02 look at this graph, grandpa i’m scared
01:30 hoarding a big bag of chocolate for life
02:02 the real price of cheap chocolate
02:29 paying the bills, no cocoa virus computer virus
03:57 a chat with Dr. Sophia Carodenuto
04:19 bitter origins of chocolate
05:12 i drew a farm, look at my farm
05:44 ideas for a future with chocolate
06:50 let me tell you something about forest gardens
08:11 melissa enters willy wonka’s chocolate factory
09:03 how chocolate goes from cocoa pod to chocolate bar
11:22 a hopeful future for chocolate

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What do you call a monkey going crazy for chocolate? Bananas.
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