Mars Is Investing $5 Million to Create the Perfect Peanut — and It's Already Yielding Results

Food & Wine ^ | August 1, 2025 | Stacey Leasca

[enumerated]

So there ARE people on Mars!

[Organic Panic]

“it has become clear that climate change poses a threat to many parts of our food supply”

...in a country that has the fatter “poor people” on the planet. They just can’t help themselves.

[DannyTN]

It’s expensive to import peanuts from Earth.

[bicyclerepair]

Stopped at climate change. An author who uses those words is not worth reading.

[airborne]

That's nuts!

[blackdog]

Oh no! GMO Snickers! Wanna bet Hersheys is also creating Frankencocoa plants?

I started growing peanuts as ground cover. Although I must shoot the hoards of squirrels that would otherwise eat everything I grow, (pears, peaches, kiwi, grapes, etc...), I take no pressure in doing so. Traps don't work. They just find their way back home in a few weeks. They are like furry homing pigeons.

Peanuts and beans like pinto, black, and cranberry, produce impressive yields with little to no input. It seems like now I'm going to need a way to grow Cocoa bean plants?!!

[HYPOCRACY]

Peanuts are gross. Martian peanuts are beyond disgusting. Mars has climate change too.

[Donbue]

“$5 million investment that will focus on protecting peanut crops from climate change”
Can’t have all that stray carbon dioxide making peanut plants thrive like crazy now can we!?

[crusty old prospector]

You need some Cajun goobers. Spicy.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Uhhh. Hot weather doesn't kill peanuts. They thrive in hot humid weather.

[Bigg Red]

From increasing arsenic levels in rice to raising the price of coffee, it has become clear that climate change poses a threat to many parts of our food supply.

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Stacy is rather dumb, isn’t she?

[Bigg Red]

😄

[Mark]

We are doomed!

[fidelis]

Peanuts have their uses:

[amnestynone]

I wonder if Jupiter and Venus will compete with Mars?

[Openurmind]

Lab altered GMO Peanuts.

[Verginius Rufus]

Well, so far the other planets seem to be slackers compared to Mars.

[dfwgator]

Well, so far the other planets seem to be slackers compared to Mars.

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What about The Milky Way?

[cyclotic]

The perfect peanut is the Virginia Peanut. They are larger and a bit oiler with a very crunchy radicle.

The radicle is the little piece that holds the two sides together.

The Good Earth Peanut Company in southern Virginia have the best ones I’ve found.