Lammy accused her of refusing to confront the reality of what was happening in Gaza.
"I have been looking at this chocolate market for quite a few years now – I don't remember a big story like this on costs going up," adds Mr Caines.A key reason for this increase is climate change-related weather impacts on cacao farms,
Plus, some farmers in Ghana are turning away from cacao production in favour of illegal gold-mining, according to reports.of roughly 500,000 tonnes of cocoa in the global market last year.Real chocolate could become a "luxury" item in the future says Massimo Sabatini, co-founder and chief executive of Italian firm Foreverland, which makes a cocoa powder alternative called Choruba.
The company opened its production facility in March, where staff process not cacao beans but carob husks.Carob trees produce small, brown, banana-shaped pods containing seeds. It's possible to process the pods to create a cocoa-like powder. This chocolate alternative has a long history, however – and not a very happy one.
claims a generation was "traumatized" by carob-based confectionary during the 1970s. It didn't taste as good as real chocolate, and it didn't melt in your mouth in the same way, apparently.
But Mr Sabatini insists that he and his colleagues have come up with a worthy product. He acknowledges that carob "really doesn't taste like chocolate" but adds that Foreverland's fermentation and roasting process removes some of the carob flavour to get it closer to cocoa."I don't think you'd be human if you weren't affected by the cases that came in," she added.
"At home, yes, I do see trauma, but it's not on the same level that I see here, where it's pretty much every day."Ms Blackman added that in al-Mawasi she was treating patients who had experienced significant weight loss.
"There's evident malnutrition in children, so we do our best to get them on a targeted food programme."But it's also just trying to giving people some dignity while they are receiving the care here."