Sad, Sad News

British chef and author Nigella Lawson once said, "[Chocolate] gives [people] a feeling that's meant to be comparable to the feeling you get when you fall in love...It's like giddiness, feeling of excitement, feeling of attraction. So, in other words -- perhaps without knowing it -- we're giving people a love drug"

Not that I am a huuuge chocolate lover, but I know a lot of them. Sometimes, yes, it is a problem.

However, we have one, large problem facing us in the next 20 years.

Apparently...we are running out of chocolate. Well, we're actually running out of the main ingredient of what makes chocolate -- cocoa. We are consuming at a faster rate than we are producing. According to AOL News, cocoa is a labour and time consuming crop.

What does that mean for us?
Does that mean less happy people?

Discovery Health has concluded that

"Chocolate does, indeed, contain several compounds that have been shown to act on the brain in myriad ways, and most of them induce pleasure. It's also long been believed that chocolate, which is processed from the cocoa plant and is found growing in such far-flung areas of the world as Malaysia, Ghana and Guatemala, bestows heightened feelings of sexuality upon the eater. This would make chocolate an aphrodisiac, a notion that the Aztec ruler Montezuma reportedly bought into. He's said to have drunk goblets full of a chocolate drink called xocolatl ("bitter water") to provide stamina for his sexual conquests"

John Mason, executive director of the Ghana-based Nature Conservation Research Council, claimed that chocolate will be like caviar in 20 years, "It will become so rare and so expensive that the average Joe just won't be able to afford it."

Confession: As I'm writing this entry, I'm eating a Hershey's Cookie 'n' Creme bar. HAVE YOU TRIED IT? Quite delicious. Courtesy of my friend: Laura Schiraldi.