The Fourth Layer - Boyd Craven Jr

The United States and China had been in a trade war. In order to dominate as the world's food supplier, U.S. Government owned Walsanto Seeds had developed an innovative line of genetically modified grain seed they called Plus. CornPlus, WheatPlus, OatPlus, and SoyPlus to name a few of the biggest sellers. They grew twice as big, twice as fast, and yielded four times as much as their heirloom predecessors. The whole world embraced America's new Feed The World initiative-until a problem was discovered. Somehow, the impossible had happened, and the cocktail of genes that had been added to make them grow like that moved up the food chain.
It began with the chicken industry, then pork, beef, and dairy followed. A brilliant forensic geneticist, named Hannah Withers got involved. Her research told her that unless drastic measures were taken soon, mankind was next in line for Hybridization.
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With Hannah's first attempt at reversing the Hybridization a failure, she enlisted some help from some friends at MIT to program some tiny nanobots that should be capable of doing the job manually, by brute force.
They worked fine on mice...
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This story begins the second linked series that collectively form the WE'RE ONLY HUMAN universe and is aptly titled FIXING THE WORLD. It'll make perfect sense if you start reading right here, but I'll bet if you like it, in between publishing dates here, you'll go read the first 6 novellas in FEEDING THE WORLD for background. Oh yeah...they're good too!
This story finished itself on us at 32,000 words. They do that sometimes. Hayley and I promise you'll like this one!