Indigenous Chocolate

03/28/2024

It may come as a big shock or surprise to to understand the need to isolate and conserve the botanical origin and natural habitat of Theobroma biodiversity especially among "chocolate lovers" based on the facts, which include but are not limited to:

1) child slavery and poverty
2) unsustainable agricultural practices
3) destruction of natural habitats
4) disease resistance (now and in the future)
5) protecting biodiversity hotspots
6) preserving indigenous knowledge
7) false designation of origins and sources
8) changing climatic conditions

It is a big job to "disrupt the chocolate industry" and make it sustainable through political regulation in law; but it is one that must be addressed or we will end up with more of the same problems and more ambiguity, instead of mere acknowledgement, consensus, and some inconvenience for users of the Theobroma genome. It is also a chore that may take 10, 20 or even 30 years to unravel and rebuild.

Meanwhile people will need to contend with the drastic increase in price of the precious non-essential food while Big Chocolate that depends on the plant will need to support the emerging solutions as they come into existence. The need for solutions outweighs the status quo and the continuing corporate corruption. Meanwhile enjoy your $5 Hershey's bar, or the new $1 bite size mini-chocolates being produced now.

03/27/2024

If you are one of my , that is in the chocolate business be careful with how you describe your products and which words you use; you may find yourself targeted in a lawsuit which is looking to engage all those persons that are infringing on the rights of the "Indigenous Peoples of South America" that we represent, there are actually quite a few companies in the United States that are creating false origins and infringing. According to Title 15 U.S. Code § 1125 - False designations of origin, false descriptions, and dilution [are] forbidden! We already have several companies in our sights that are mistaking and misappropriating Indigenous Knowledge and their rights under biodiversity and human rights laws.

Any goods marked or labeled in contravention of the provisions of this section shall not be imported into the United States or admitted to entry at any customhouse of the United States. The owner, importer, or consignee of goods refused entry at any customhouse under this section may have any recour...

03/26/2024

African Cocoa being purchased by large chocolate makers is now at $10,000 per ton. This means that estate grown and heirloom cacao is worth $11,000 to $15,000 per ton, which in turn makes Indigenous Cacao worth $17,000 to $22,000 per ton roughly.

Cocoa prices reached a record on Tuesday as high demand and supply constraints fuel prices higher.

02/23/2023

We are moving to protect our "Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property" of the Huottuja (People of the Forest) in the United States Courts from our new headquarters in Colombia with a special Indigenous mission and commitment to biodiversity. This is something special.

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02/14/2023

We are working with organizations that by nature are developed to protect the human rights of others. Currently there are many non-indigenous and acculturated claims that need to be resolved and reconciled in the US, Canadian and Australian Courts to protect our invention and the remaining biodiversity of Indigenous Territories in South America.

The Food of the Gods was first discovered, originated and sourced as Indigenous Chocolate over 5000 years ago by the De’Aruhuä, the Masters of the Forest who used it as spiritual vehicle to higher realms of consciousness. Chocolate was made from rarest wild Amerindian Theobroma cacao (Indigenous ...

02/13/2023

INDIGENOUS CHOCOLATE ™ is an unregistrable trademark and collective mark of the Indigenous Peoples of South America in any language. The trademark is representative to the actual "type" of chocolate which can only be derived from "wild grown" indigenous cacao varieties within the biodiverse origins of "Theobroma cacao", worldwide there are less that 500 tons of wild or endemic (indigenous) cacao each year, of that less than 30 tons per year are converted into Indigenous chocolate.

Indigenous cacao does not make Indigenous Chocolate, it makes organic, whole, and natural Chocolate that was produced using Indigenous or Wild Cacao when fairly traded with Free, Prior and Informed Consent.

An unregistered trademark or common law trademark is an enforceable mark created by a business or individual to signify or distinguish a product or service. It is legally different from a registered trademark granted by statute.

02/13/2023

The history of our invention of chocolate and the uses of cacao are thoroughly recorded in history. It is a very clear and concise history that while it accredits us as the originators does not go far enough to recognize us with the authority we actually possess in the chocolate industry and cacao trade!

The history of chocolate, and its creation from the beans of the cacao tree, can be traced to the ancient Maya, and even earlier to the ancient Olmecs of

02/13/2023

Today we talk about "neo-colonialism" as if it were a bad thing, whereas "bio-colonialism" has never been discussed in a age of "decolonization". The cost of reparations in the cacao industry exceed 5 years supply of a 200 billion dollar per year industry, which are losing their corporate privileges challenging international rights and human rights.

If you ask someone why chocolate is such a huge part of our culture today, you may get responses referring to its universally adored taste, or perhaps the marketing that large multinational corpora…

02/13/2023

Can Hershey's and Mars, undo the damage they have done on the tails of the biopirates or did they know better? Has anyone considered the rights of the genome owners in nature and the remaining inventors of chocolate in anything they have done during their histories? Have they ever tried to treat the source and origin of Theobroma cacao with any respect or dignity?

Mars and Hershey are giving away the farm. Mars, the company behind M&Ms and Milky Way, has cracked chocolate’s DNA code and instead of immediately filing a truckload of patents to protect its intellectual property, the company is sharing it with the world. Its genome map of the cacao tree will be...

02/13/2023

The "Indigenous Peoples of the Americas" have only possessed their human rights within their territories for less than 20 years; only now are we beginning to understand what they are actually responsible for that has been mistaken and misappropriated until now that is! Under Article 26 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples allows them to redress the issue of "biocolonialism" and the "encomiendas systems" that were created to dominate their control of Theobroma cacao and their invention of chocolate which has been exploited (in violation of customary and traditional laws governing maritime trade) to become a 200 billion dollar unregulated and unlicensed industry.

Biocolonialism was a form of biopiracy during a time when greed and speculation ruled the world, leaving us with unresolved and unreconciled challenges today.

Gene-editing technology is progressing faster than our ethical conversations about how we should use it. Krystal Tsosie thinks that’s a problem.