(It's a reference to a plot device in Retrotopia: the civil war which destroyed the US was set off by an angry mob tearing a GMO company executive apart when he stood up to say that their corn, which had a gene from a starfish spliced into it, couldn't possibly be causing the wave of birth defects which were occurring.)
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Date: 2021-09-14 05:53 pm (UTC)(It's a reference to a plot device in Retrotopia: the civil war which destroyed the US was set off by an angry mob tearing a GMO company executive apart when he stood up to say that their corn, which had a gene from a starfish spliced into it, couldn't possibly be causing the wave of birth defects which were occurring.)