• metermatic26@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    “One German brand, the Nestlé-owned Choco Crossies, recently announced it was eliminating cocoa altogether from its new Snack Vibes line, replacing it with ChoViva, a lab-grown chocolate alternative made from fermented sunflower and grape seeds.”

    How the fudge did we end up in this dystopian nightmare? ಥ_ಥ

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      2 minutes ago

      We continued releasing more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for decades after learning that it was causing increasingly extreme weather

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      3 hours ago

      Child slavery is frowned upon just enough that they have eliminated real cocoa. People won’t pay for non-slave rates, so they have to go with synthetic product.

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      3 hours ago

      Lab-grown? Lab-GROWN? What fucking part of the metal tank has the growing area?