The Picard Maneuver to Political [email protected] • 2 years agoThis is a totally normal thing to find on your food's packagingstartrek.websiteimagemessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1655
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•2 years agoHawaii and Puerto Rico are the only suitable regions. And they do, just nowhere near enough, nor could they. They are too small.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•2 years agoLikely 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•edit-22 years agoReplying 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoBut slaves are a lot cheaper and you gotta keep the shareholders happy.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 years agoThis is why we should have nonprofits produce goods
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•2 years agoHere is an article about chocolate grown on Hawaii. https://www.chocolateuniversityonline.com/growing-cacao-on-american-soil/ Yup, too small.
Hawaii and Puerto Rico are the only suitable regions. And they do, just nowhere near enough, nor could they. They are too small.
Greenhouses then.
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.
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
20 to 120 trees per kilogram of chocolate.
Note this is not the same as a finished candy bar or baking chocolate.
But slaves are a lot cheaper and you gotta keep the shareholders happy.
This is why we should have nonprofits produce goods
Here is an article about chocolate grown on Hawaii. https://www.chocolateuniversityonline.com/growing-cacao-on-american-soil/
Yup, too small.