M&M's Maker Turns to Gene Editing in Bid to Secure Cocoa Supply

7 Bluestein 5 8/6/2025, 2:32:38 PM bloomberg.com ↗

Comments (5)

tocs3 · 4h ago
I have been wanting to get some cocoa trees to grow (indoors) for a while. It would be neat to be able to grow my own chocolate.
bell-cot · 3h ago
It is a long and equipment-intensive road from "I harvested cocoa pods from my cocoa trees" to "I made good, edible chocolate" -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate#Processing

bell-cot · 4h ago
The new chocolates will be identified by having an "a", "t", "c", or "g" printed on them, instead of the traditional "m".

In limited edition short production runs, the "t" will be replaced by a "u".

;)

LargoLasskhyfv · 4h ago
Naa. Zem arr industrial. Zey vill ooze new nucleotidez/xeno nucleic äzidz made wiff zynthetiq biology. Givz whole new alphabets to spell.

And zoo it beginz!

Bluestein · 2h ago
Yikes. Some LLM broke! :)