NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
If there’s one thing kids, pregnant ladies and stressed out parents can agree on, it’s that a world without chocolate is a world we don’t want to live in.
A report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in America says that changes in global climate will make it impossible to grow cacao trees by the year 2050. It’s now 2018 and that means we may find ourselves telling our grandkids about the olden days when we had this delicious substance called chocolate. And then the little ones will giggle and be like, “Grandma/Grandpa, you’re so old!” as a single tear rolls down our cheek. *sob*

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12 chocolate recipes to cure that cravingLuckily, science is here to (hopefully!) save the day. Mars?the candy company, not the planet?is partnering with researchers to create a genetically modified cacao tree that can withstand the changing climate.
Their plan is to use the gene-splicing tool CRISPR to alter the DNA of a new generation of trees so that they won’t wilt or rot as temperatures rise in regions along the equator where cacao trees currently thrive.
CRISPR has been a controversial topic in recent years because of the idea of using its precise DNA-splicing abilities...