Will Chocolate Be Extinct In 40 Years? I YES OR SNOPES?

( music playing ). Welcome back. Now, when it comes to fact checking. a lot people like to use the site Snopes.com. - Today, Link and I are gonna play a little-- - Link: Hey! This isn't that funny anymore. I didn't even realize you were gone. I'm super glued to a freaking wall. - Can you get me down? - Okay. - Welcome back, Link. - Thank you. That was quiet an experience. Yeah, you were great at catch. ( laughs ). Now as I was saying before, Snopes.com is the definitive internet reference source.

for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation. and if you don't believe me, just check Snopes. Okay, so what we're gonna do is, is we're gonna each read a commonly held belief, urban legend, bizarre facts, something of the sort. and the other person is gonna have to guess. if it's true or false according to Snopes. Rhett present me with the first one. Um, and I will let you know what I think Snopes says. Okay. On December 31st, 2017,

Business Insider published an article claiming, "Chocolate is on track to go extinct in 40 years.". I remember this. I actually remember this because you mentioned it. to me in a panic, but I never read the article. Okay, is it true or false? Cacao... - ( laughter ) - is grown--. I wasn't just making, like, an expletive. Cacao! I don't know what the answer is! You know what? That's a good... Are you trying to teach your kids, like, to release.

their tension without using curse words, cacao is a good one. - Well, it's - It's also a good celebratory term. - Cacao! - It's dangerously close to ka-chow, which is Owen Wilson's catch phrase when he was a car. Yeah. Might as well be a curse word. You don't-- You don't want to flirt with that. Um, I mean... cacao is grown in areas. that are being threatened ecologically. I'm making this up. - ( laughter ) - Um, sounds good though.

And, it would ring true to me if you were to tell me. - that the areas-- because of climate change, - Mm. The, uh, whole cacao regions, wherever they are. Those hot places where cacao is grown. is, uh, is being, is being turned into parking lots. - So, is it true or false? - So that's it. It's definitely true. - Uh... - I think I made myself clear, - I'm very confident. - You're all over the right track.

but you're going in the wrong direction, technically, - because it is false. - I'm going in the wrong what? - The direction. - Okay. - Okay. - Rhett: This was reported by Forbes, Newsweek, Food & Wine--. when Food & Wine gets into it, you wanna believe it. Uh, basically it's false because what the business--. False? That's good news. Good news! The Business Insider article stated that over half the world's. chocolate just come from just two countries. in West Africa, the Ivory Coast and Ghana, and by 2050, the rising temperatures will push today's. chocolate growing regions more than 1,000 feet up hill. - into mountainous terrain. - Mm-hmm.

Basically they're saying, the cacao plants. are slated to disappear as early as 2050... - They gotta climb the mountains. - thanks to warmer temperatures. However, that doesn't mean it's gonna go extinct. It just means it's gonna get difficult to grow chocolate. and they're gonna have to figure out some other way to do it. but ain't nobody gonna let chocolate go extinct. - So... - ♪ Ain't nobody ♪. - Chocolate covered click bait, - ♪ Gonna lose that chocolate ♪. - is what this was. - Oh, yeah? And incidentally, in a weird twist of fate, we're using the same exact title for this video. - Thanks for clicking. - Not gonna go extinct though. - Don't worry. - I got one for you.

A popular topic of debate on social media. is whether or not meat is bad for you, right? Uh, well informed vegetarians will likely. point to scientific research demonstrating. that vegans or vegetarians. - live longer lives. - Lives? Live longer lives than their omnivorous counterparts. So, Rhett, do vegetarians live longer than meat eaters? 100% yes. Unequivocal. Definitely.

Just based on what? Based on the fact that while meat is a great. source of protein, there are better sources. of protein that are cleaner, like beans, crickets--. A vegetarian doesn't eat an insect. Insectetarians do though. We should come up with a word for that. There probably is one. Uh, no, but I think that the, uh, the other bad effects, the cardiological effects. - The Cardi B? - Yeah, the Cardi B effects of meat. uh, it balances, it cancels itself out. Vegetarians live longer. Uh, well, here's what Snope says.

Uh, "A survey conducted by Loma Linda University. compared the life spans of the general population. to a large population of vegetarians. Seventh Day Adventists. Okay, that's a little strange. Because they're just obsessed with those Seventh Day Adventists. - No, because they're vegetarians. - They're vegetarians. They lead a very strict, healthy lifestyle. which includes no meats. Um, the data was collected between 1976 and 1988. and the results were, Adventists vegetarian men and women.

have expected ages of death. at 83.3 and 85.7 years respectively. That's older than normal. And that, yeah, that is 9 and a half. and 6.1 years, respectively for men and women. greater than those of the 1985 California population. - So almost-- - Which is the only population that matters. Yeah, so I don't know how scientific this is. Like in '85 California population. Seventh Day Adventists may be doing other things. Uh, to keep themselves out of trouble. But I know I'm right about this. Vegetarians live longer.

Mmm, but! - To counter the study. - Uh-oh. A study in 2015 in the UK, um, the study was part of the European perspective. investigation into cancer and nutrition survey. Lots of words which makes it seem legit. Mm-hmm. Um, more than 60,000 people. They found that vegetarianism provided no overall reduction. in risk of early death. Hmm. That was the UK though, right? - Uh... - You can't trust those people. The study also showed that 30% of vegetarians. will die at Burning Man. - ( laughter ) - So what are you saying?

- Uh, the overall-- - Are you saying it's inconclusive? - the overall conclusion-- - Is be a Seventh Day Adventist. From Snopes is that it is unproven. And if you want to know how vegans feel about this conclusion, - oh, don't worry, they will tell you. - Yes they will. Uh, so, you weren't right. I believe that I was and that's what makes it controversial. Yeah, you could be right, but you could be wrong. Thanks for liking, commenting, and subscribing. Don't panic, you know what time it is. Hey, this is John from Charlotte, North Carolina.

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