8 endangered foods you should probably appreciate a lot more

[yuiyoshida]

There are few things worse nothing worse than going to the grocery store and finding out that your favorite food item is sold out, but with rising food costs, climate change and increased demand around the world, get ready for a new reality of some of your favorite foods getting a whole lot more expensive and harder to come by. Click below to find out which eight foods you should probably put in your shopping basket before they run out!



How much do you like your chocolate? Well, be prepared to pay up in the near future because the price of your favorite bar of chocolate is likely to skyrocket due to an explosion in global demand and a diminishing supply of cocoa. It seems that while the world cannot get enough of the sweet stuff, cocoa production is slowing down as farmers run out of room to plant the crop. Cocoa is also competing for precious agriculture space with hot commodities like palm oil.

Another reason for your chocolate fix going up is that the low-paid workers who toil all day for about 80 cents are (rightly) demanding more pay and some are leaving the tough industry all together. For the workers that remain, they have little to no incentive to produce cocoa in a more sustainable way because they cannot afford to not use every inch of land they can. So the nutrients in the soil become depleted and the crop yield decreases.

So how much should you expect to pay for chocolate soon? One London chocolatier predicts up to seven times the current price.

more...http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/12/03/8-endangered-foods-you-should-probably-appreciate-a-lot-more/

[Laelth]

1. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[aikoaiko]

2. Sadly, Uni should be on this list.

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Its at my favorite sushi places less and less.

[yuiyoshida]

3. We have it in San Francisco...

Where are you? My sushi place will deliver sushi to my door. I don't know many Sushi places that do that. I can't wait for Friday!!

[aikoaiko]

4. I don't think we have sushi places that deliver in Savannah

We have plenty of sushi places, but none of them ever seem to have uni anymore.

[yuiyoshida]

6. Have you tried asking many of them?

Maybe they can get it for you,. Uni is our menu here...
though on this one, they don't list Nigiri...but its on my home menu.
http://www.ninkisf.com/menu-wrap.html

[wocaonimabi]

5. Sardines Bummer I love fresh grilled Sardines at least foie gras is not on the list!

Well I just bought 60 bottles of wine last weekend guess I should go and get some more and stock up before it is all gone!

[yuiyoshida]

7. I am really surprised that no one...not one person

Mentioned Bacon. Its on the list.

[wocaonimabi]

8. The bacon shortage is only temporary

Pigs reproduce fast, Columbus left I think it was 5 or 6 pigs on his first voyage to the America’s and when he came back the pigs reproduced and spread all over the America’s.

Pigs are not native to the America’s.

[yuiyoshida]

9. Pig History

At Queen Isabella's insistence, Christopher Columbus took eight pigs on his voyage to Cuba in 1493. They were tough and could survive the voyage with minimal care, they supplied an emergency food source if needed, and those that escaped provided meat for hunting on return trips. But Hernando de Soto was the true "father of the American pork industry." He brought America's first 13 pigs to Tampa Bay, Fla., in 1539. As the herds grew, explorers used the pigs not only for eating as fresh meat but for salt pork and preserved pork. American Indians were reportedly so fond of the taste of pork that attacks to acquire it resulted in some of the worst assaults on the expedition. By the time de Soto died three years later, his original herd of 13 pigs had grown to 700 – a very conservative estimate. This number doesn't include the pigs eaten by his troops, those that escaped and became wild pigs (the ancestors of today's feral pigs), and those given to the American Indians to keep the peace. The pork industry in America had begun.

more... http://www.austinchronicle.com/food/2009-04-10/764573/

[wocaonimabi]

10. Now I want some me some BBQ!

Cebu Pig would be rather tasty right about now!

[yuiyoshida]

14. I dun eat pork...but

more for you I guess!

[oneshooter]

11. There are too many pigs. Wild hogs are destroying crops.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/nuisance/feral_hogs/

http://icwdm.org/publications/pdf/feral%20pig/txferalhogs.pdf


Properly processed and cooked they are delicious.

[ananda]

12. Oh no, not goat cheese!

..

[yuiyoshida]

13. Maybe we need a few more

Goat farms in the US, that process their cheese. Someone call up Hickory Farms!!!

[KamaAina]

15. Tequila AND wine?!

[yuiyoshida]

16. Well...there is always

Sake...