(1 Sep 2024)
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West Sacramento, California – 28, 2024
1. Employees working in lab of California Cultured
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Perlstein, California Cultured CEO:
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"So we find a rare and desirable cocoa species around the planet. We then take a cutting of the cocoa bean, put them onto plates, and we trick basically the cocoa cells to grow and divide. And after a certain level of growth, we’re able to harvest that and transform that into chocolate."
3. Cocoa cells in petri dishes
4. Perlstein removes flask with cocoa cells
5. Close-up of flask with cocoa cells
6. Employee removing cocoa cells from petri dish
7. Close-up of hand holding cocoa pellets
8. Perlstein eating cocoa pellets
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ARCHIVE: Quito, Ecuador – January 25, 2019
9. Various of chocolate in production
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West Sacramento, California – 28, 2024
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Perlstein, California Cultured CEO:
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"Unfortunately, what’s happened with the rapid love of chocolate and coffee globally, this has led to devastating global deforestation in these tropical areas. In addition, there’s issues of slave labor, pollution."
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ARCHIVE: San Martín de Pangoa, Peru – 21 September 2019
11. Various of cacao growing on trees
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ARCHIVE: San Martín de Pangoa, Peru – 21 September 2019
12. Woman splitting the cacao
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ARCHIVE: Quito, Ecuador – January 25, 2019
13. Man pours melted chocolate
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West Sacramento, California – 28, 2024
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Perlstein, California Cultured CEO:
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"So climate change is impacting the chocolate industry by, first of all, making it too warm for many species to prosper. And that has led to massive drops in yield around the world."
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ARCHIVE: Djodjagnoa, Ivory Coast – 27 February 2024
15. Various of farmers with pile of cacao kernels
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West Sacramento, California – 28, 2024
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Perlstein, California Cultured CEO:
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"We’re basically developing the underlying technology that you could actually grow chocolate and coffee anywhere in the world without some of these exploitative or destructive practices."
17. California Cultured measuring sugar to feed cocoa cells
18. Perlstein showing flasks growing cocoa cells
19. Large glass container with growing cocoa cells
20. Employee extracting clumps of cocoa cells
STORYLINE:
Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly-sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching other ways to grow cocoa or develop cocoa substitutes.
Advanced samples have already been created by agricultural/food scientists across the globe, from Northern California to the country of Israel.
California Cultured, a plant cell culture company, is growing cocoa from cell cultures at a facility in West Sacramento, with plans to start selling its products next year. It puts cocoa bean cells in a vat with sugar water so they reproduce quickly and reach maturity in a week rather than the six to eight months a traditional harvest takes, said Alan Perlstein, the company’s chief executive. The process also no longer requires as much water or arduous labor.
The price of cocoa soared earlier this year because of demand and troubles with the crop in West Africa due to plant disease and changes in weather. The region produces the bulk of the world’s cocoa.
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