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Can Gene Editing Save the World’s Chocolate?

Did you know that cocoa plants (Theobroma cacao) around the world are being affected by viruses and fungi, to the point of killing whole crops? The CRISPR technique could make them resistant to these infections, saving cocoa crops, chocolate, and more than 50 million jobs generated by their industry!

Article by Laura Geggel, Livescience

Can Gene Editing Save the World’s Chocolate?

A cocoa pod in Ecuador infected with the fungus Moniliophthora roreri, which causes frosty pod. Credit: Shutterstock

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Does Greenpeace International really care about the environment?

I don’t think so. They have remained silent about a large ecocide in Venezuela, where Russian mining companies are destroying the rainforest in the Roraima National Park. Thousands of unique species are being killed, and not a word from Greenpeace. You check their website and there is no mention of this. Real environmental destruction is completely ignored while the theoretical and extremely unlikely risks of GMOs are exaggerated and relentlessly promoted.
They don’t care about people either, as they show when they oppose Golden Rice.

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