While enjoying your Thanksgiving dinner, take time to be thankful for the little things--including some comfort items that we may not have in the future.
We are reminded often that natural resources are dwindling, which usually brings such staples as oil, coal and fresh water to mind, but many commodities are evaporating as well, Gizmodo reported.
Seven modern mainstays, including chocolate, tequila, bacon and wine, are running out, according to the outlet. Visit here for the complete list.
As fair trade laws become more prevalent, chocolate is on its way to becoming an expensive commodity. The world's chocolate is currently produced en masse with the help of child labor, which hasn't yet been outlawed in West Africa, where most of the world's cocoa supply comes from.
Harvesting cocoa is difficult work with small payoff, making it too expensive to produce in large quantities. It can also only be grown in latitudes within 10 degrees of the equator, areas that hold some of the most unstable countries in the world.
"At this rate, in about 20 years, chocolate could become a luxury with a caviar-comparable price points," Gizmodo said.
Blue agave, the plant that makes tequila, is another crop that is becoming too expensive to produce. Farmers in Mexico have opted to burn fields of blue agave to plant corn instead.
Whenever the tequila shortage hits, the gold liquid will become expensive--but at least that will give independent farmers an incentive to start growing blue agave. Consumers should be aware, however, that it takes 12 years for a blue agave plant to produce the fructose needed to make tequila.
Bacon, that beloved breakfast food versatile enough for nearly anything, will also become a hard-to-find commodity, according to Britain's National Pig Association, which says a worldwide shortage of bacon and other pig products "is now unavoidable" as food costs rise.
Hog farmers in the U.S. have been cutting back on production as well due to a recent drought. While bacon likely won't be disappearing altogether, prices will definitely rise as the stock diminishes.
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