"Ebola threatens chocolate", 12 Oct 2014

Ebola is threatening much of the world’s chocolate supply. Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producer of cacao…has shut down its borders with Liberia and Guinea, putting a major crimp on the workforce needed to pick the beans…The World Cocoa Foundation is working now to collect large donations from Nestlé, Mars and many of its 113 other members for its Coca Industry Response to Ebola Initiative…Transmar Group, an international cocoa supplier, already has pledged $100,000, and Mars has indicated its support, too…Barry Callebaut…is reaching out to employees at its two cocoa processing plants in the country and as many farmers as it can to educate them on how to avoid getting sick and spreading the disease, according to spokesman Rafael Wermuth…Nestlé…is working both in and out of the infected countries…”...