So forget
about the chocolate you ate as a
kid and check out these smaller producers, because, as Simran Sethi writes in her book * Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love *, the cacao you're accustomed to has led to a marked decrease in
biodiversity in cacao - growing regions.
This is serious science, and the
kids find nothing icky
about animal waste, which, they are learning, provides important clues for
biodiversity exploration.