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Chocolate shortage? Better not be!
The Ivory Coast could lose one-third of its cacao tree crop this year due to a virus, according to New Scientist magazine.
Here’s why you should care: Chocolate comes from the cacao tree.
Seventy-percent of the world’s chocolate comes from west Africa.
Scientists are working to find genes in the trees which are resistant to disease and find a way to use those to create disease-resistant trees.
Those scientists better be working feverishly.
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By flipper
July 6, 2009 4:15 PM | Link to this
Find some no fat twizzlers and shut up.By You don't understand, do you?
July 6, 2009 10:25 PM | Link to this
Um, Flipper, if there is no chocolate, there is nothing to balance out a woman who is PMSing … I don’t know about the rest of the guys, but my husband’s already cringing at the thought.By ChocolateLuvr
July 8, 2009 8:10 PM | Link to this
That’s ok, if I get desperate I can sniff some guys chocolate flavored armpits with the new Axe deodorant and spray that comes in chocolate flavor…lol