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This is a totally normal thing to find on your food's packaging (startrek.website)
submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So what the hell is stopping people from simply growing it in other countries, like the U.S.?

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Climate mostly.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can't it be grown in Florida? Or Puerto Rico?

[–] Lowpast@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hawaii and Puerto Rico are the only suitable regions. And they do, just nowhere near enough, nor could they. They are too small.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 6 points 11 months ago

Here is an article about chocolate grown on Hawaii. https://www.chocolateuniversityonline.com/growing-cacao-on-american-soil/

Yup, too small.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Greenhouses then.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Likely technically possible. Loops back to expense and capitalism.

OTOH, someone with the cash to fund it could actually have cruelty free chocolate. 5x the current price is likely viable, but 100x seems unlikely.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Replying to myself.

Article about growing chocolate in homes/greenhouses.

https://practicalselfreliance.com/grow-chocolate-tree-indoors/

This might be doable as a co-op.

Edit: they got about 5 beans from one plant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_bean

To produce 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of chocolate, around 300 to 600 cocoa beans are processed.

20 to 120 trees per kilogram of chocolate.

Note this is not the same as a finished candy bar or baking chocolate.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I think we have found a use for all of those old empty office buildings

[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But slaves are a lot cheaper and you gotta keep the shareholders happy.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

This is why we should have nonprofits produce goods