Stolen Earth

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Humanity believed once that it could genetically change the food to help cure most, if not all diseases. Instead of being produced in factories, medicines were grown straight from the ground.

Major corporations liked and invested large portions of income and time into it. This allowed great profit margins, and less spending on laborers and supplies. Nearly two thirds of all the corporations on earth, medical or not, had some ties in with growing medicine.

The pharmaceutical companies had it the worst because they were unable to keep up with the supply that med-farms were able to produce, and eventually went under. Genetically altered organisms were the best way to produce what people needed on a very short time frame.

Within the first year of producing, growing and selling these crops, the entire world had received the chance to start curing people all different types of issues including cancers, genetic deformities, and mental illness.

It didn't stop there, by feeding the livestock this miracle cure all, the animals would grow leaner, healthier, and tasted even better than their predecessors.

Life on earth was reaching its next stage in evolution then changes started to occur. Plant lifesoon became something that was unrecognizable, so foreign that lead many to believe that we were under attack by an alien race, trying to change our world to suit their needs.

Many new allergies arose that caused instant death from the pollens during ragweed seasons. Strange flowers that would grow to 3, 4, sometimes even up to 6 feet wide, looked like large pillows, that would open up and large vines would come out and grab anything nearby as potential food.

It would swallow its prey chew it up and hold it inside the flower for days at a time. Other plants were small, Ivy Walkers were able to move around like they had a mind and thinking of where to go next.  When a group of walkers would get together, they would form large structures that would work together and move about the landscape.

Some people were said to embrace the new life as though it had been given to us, as a gift. Others would collect these plants and producing hybrid plants, growing them for the beauty and exoticness. People would collect these plants up as pets for the longest time.

The only problem with it was that the plant would divide itself if it didn't have another plant around to connect too. Once divided, it wouldn't stop dividing. People had to move out of their own homes because of this. But this form of production took a radical turn for the worse just after five generations of growing seasons.

The plants were able to modify themselves to be able to cross pollinate with other crops and the product of this cross caused genetic abnormalities in people and animals after ingesting.

In the beginning, foods became poisonous to humans and other animals. Then the contamination began killing the organisms, but after time the organisms began to change as the genetic structure of the food was able to alter itself like a virus.

The genetic remodeling began and started to spread quickly and caused a widespread epidemic across the world. Every food product on Earth had been contaminated in some form. Even down to the simplest of grasses and algae, the plague spread far and wide.

Many attempts were made in search of a cure for the plague that seemed to get worse with every attempt. Sadly what was unknown at the time was that the genetic structure of the people and organisms changed so rapidly that the test subjects would absorb the treatment.

When some people that received medication for the plague, their bodies would change even more. There was no miracle cure all because of the fact that there were so many different strains of the plague, each one was completely different from the next.