Exclusive! Grab the NordVPN deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/answerinprogress and get 4 extra months of subscription time. Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Thanks to NordVPN for sponsoring this video. 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. CHECK OUT CHOCOSOL https://chocosoltraders.com/ SUPPORT US ON PATREON https://patreon.com/answerinprogress SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER https://www.answerinprogress.com/newsletter SOCIAL MEDIA Melissa Instagram: http://instagram.com/mehlizfern Twitter: https://twitter.com/mehlizfern Sabrina Twitter: https://twitter.com/nerdyandquirky Instagram: http://instagram.com/nerdyandquirky Taha Twitter: https://twitter.com/khanstopme Instagram: http://instagram.com/khanstopme 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 MUSIC Epidemic Sound. Get started today using our affiliate link. http://share.epidemicsound.com/answerinprogress 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.2023.100739 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 --- Welcome to the joke under the fold! What do you call a monkey going crazy for chocolate? Bananas. Leave a comment with the word BANANA to let me know you were here ;-)