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Posted Wed Dec 31 2008: from Guardian (UK):
Rainforest's chewing gum tappers go organic to get out of a sticky situation http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1230759478
The location is remote, the practice old, the tools rudimentary, and the chances to chat with spider monkeys high. But this is no world apart. Men like Banos were at the root of one of the great consumer phenomena of our time: chewing gum. Produced only in the jungle that straddles the southern part of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, northern Guatemala and Belize, chicle was the basis of chewing gum, from the little balls first sold in New York 140 years ago to the sticks included in GI rations during the second world war. Then in the 1950s came synthetic substitutes that shrank the industry to a shadow of its former self.... Mexico's chicleros may be on the threshold of a comeback: they are about to launch their own brand of certified organic chewing gum, which is expected to go on sale shortly in Waitrose.
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