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This is a totally normal thing to find on your food's packaging (startrek.website)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

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

Yup, too small.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Greenhouses then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This is why we should have nonprofits produce goods