# Chocolate, China, Canola, Climate & Consumer Change and guest Suzie Yorke of The Little Cacao Company Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-food-professor-1242175/chocolate-china-canola-climate-consumer-change-and-guest-suzie-yorke-of-the-little-cacao-company Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-food-professor-1242175/chocolate-china-canola-climate-consumer-change-and-guest-suzie-yorke-of-the-little-cacao-company.md Podcast: [The Food Professor](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-food-professor-1242175) Published: 2026-01-15T09:37:04+00:00 Episode link: https://the-food-professor.simplecast.com/episodes/chocolate-china-canola-climate-consumer-change-and-guest-suzie-yorke-of-the-little-cacao-company-ya_01Y8e Audio file: https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/4ffff844-94ca-4fef-a148-428c21b081f6/episodes/37330261-9106-4c69-9549-08c22449dee5/audio/0d677208-e216-4df8-826c-c4be73bbeaa5/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=Hox9Oi2V Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-food-professor-1242175/episodes/chocolate-china-canola-climate-consumer-change-and-guest-suzie-yorke-of-the-little-cacao-company Duration seconds: 3224 ## Resource This episode of The Food Professor Podcast tackles major food and retail headlines, including McDonald’s aggressive price freeze, Aldi’s rapid U.S. expansion, Amazon’s underestimated grocery scale, climate narratives impacting agriculture, rising pet food costs, and Canada’s evolving trade relationship with China. Against this backdrop, Michael LeBlanc and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois are joined by the Force of Nature that is Suzie Yorke, CEO and Founder of The Little Cacao Company, who shares how founder-led innovation is reshaping chocolate, health, and indulgence. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-food-professor-1242175/episodes/chocolate-china-canola-climate-consumer-change-and-guest-suzie-yorke-of-the-little-cacao-company/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-food-professor-1242175/chocolate-china-canola-climate-consumer-change-and-guest-suzie-yorke-of-the-little-cacao-company.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.