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TIL: Biotech companies are using precision fermentation to turn plant material (e.g. potatoes) into chocolate in an effort to decrease the child-labor (2 million kids working in Western African cacao farms) and deforestation (-80% in Ivory Coast alone) caused by supplying the world with chocolate.

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