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Where Have All the Cocoa Powders Gone?

No Hershey’s, Ghirardelli, or Nestlé? Climate, Disease, and Low Pay Are Killing Our Cocoa. What's next?

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David Leite
Aug 22, 2025
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IT’S LIKE LIVING IN A TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE. Or, more accurately, the movie “Groundhog Day.” All three times I planned to make Hershey’s chocolate cake this summer, I wound up staring at the cocoa powder section—or what was the cocoa section—of the supermarket, head cocking from side to side, looking to all the world like a mentally challenged cocker sp…

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