David Rosenthal: belief

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…Far lower than gummy candies. The other aspect about chocolate, though, and I think here is the right place to talk about it, is the industry and what chocolate is, is changing hugely. I think most people have no idea about this. Both the first and second order effects of climate change are massively changing the chocolate industry. The cacao tree is a very, very sensitive tree. It’s this bizarre plant. I don’t think we talked about this earlier, but the pods, the fruit that have the seeds and beans in them, grow directly on the trunk of the tree. There are no branches. It’s the weirdest thing to look at. It’s like these football size pods that just go right off the trunk of the tree. And it’s something like only 25 years of their full 100-and-something year life that they actually can produce the fruit in a way where you can use it to make chocolate.…

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