Forget war. Forget pestilence. Forget famine. Forget climate change. Forget being forced to sit and listen to an entire Taylor Swift album. The real horror in today’s news? The terror that overshadows every other possible calamity that could come our way?
There is now a virus that is threatening the global supply of chocolate.
Chocoholics may want to stock up on candy bars while they can — a devastating disease is ravaging the cacao trees in West Africa, potentially putting the global chocolate supply in jeopardy, scientists have found.
“This virus is a real threat to the global supply of chocolate,” said Benito Chen-Charpentier, a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington, who authored the disheartening study published recently in the journal PLOS One.
Wait, what? A professor of mathematics? Has anyone considered getting a virologist or even a generic…
