Renate Jett Baker

Newly appointed Iraq’s Finance Minister Falih Sari officially assumed his duties at the ministry on Sunday after receiving Parliament’s vote of confidence, replacing outgoing Finance Minister Taif Sami.

Chocolate sold in America is going through 2 changes Almost our entire candy isle for chocolate in America will be effected by 1 of these 2 new techniques: - Lab grown chocolate - Genetically modified chocolate by gene slicing “California Cultured is the startup company that's growing cocoa cells in a tank. A lot of you asked, is this just one company? No, it's the entire industry” But wait till you hear what the Mars candy company's doing that's far worse in my view. Here's what every major player in the chocolate industry's doing right now - Lindt is investing in lab-grown cocoa - Mondelez, the maker of Cadbury, Oreos, and Toblerone, is investing in lab-grown cocoa butter - Barry Callebaut, the world's largest cocoa processor, is investing in cocoa cell culture Barry Callebaut isn't a name you'd recognize on a wrapper, but they supply chocolate to Hershey and Nestlé under long-term contracts. When they move, half the candy aisle moves with them” Here’s where things get really scary “Mars, the makers of M&M's, Snickers, Dove, Twix, Milky Way, Mars Bars, and Three Musketeers, among others, is doing something completely different. And this is cause for alarm in my opinion. — Mars partnered with a lab at UC Berkeley where CRISPR, the gene editing technology, was developed. They're going to modify the cacao tree's genetic structure by clipping out certain genes to make them more resistant to disease and drought tolerant. This is Frankenfood. Genetically modified Frankenfood Here’s why they are doing this Global chocolate demand's rising about 3% every year. At the same time, 70% of the world's cocoa comes from West Africa, and West Africa is getting hammered by droughts, higher temperatures, and a nasty virus Pests and diseases cause yearly losses of about 30 to 40% of the total global cocoa production So major companies have decided to grow it in a lab or genetically modify the trees The question is whether the solutions they've chosen are proportionate to the risk I’d say no, absolutely not. We all know the second these things are done they will start selling it to us with no long term safety studies and no idea how it will effect our health It’s coming so be warned