With funding from the candy giant Mars, scientists at the University of Georgia are genetically designing a peanut that can thrive in a changing climate.

The genetics of which will likely be owned by Mars in the same way genes are "owned" by genetics and pharma companies so that any drugs or treatments are monopolized and sold at whatever price they feel like.

There's BIG money in having the rights to the only strain of broccoli, banana, cow etc. that survives. This isn't humanitarian, it's end-stage capitalism recognizing profit potential in the near future of doom and suffering.