RE: From the middle 90s to recently, the grams Shrinkflation has taken away

Apparently there is a global shortage of cocoa beans. I'm not sure if it's just an excuse by corporate chocolate manufacturers to change the formulae to pad the product out with cheaper ingredients, or if there really is a shortage. Or perhaps it's a "growers won't accept insultingly low prices for the raw materials" kind of shortage as the corporates try to squeeze the farmers (who of course respond not by accepting less, but by shifting to more profitable crops).