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“She thinks you guys are crazy and dangerous.”
    “She’s got a lot of company,” Zekeal said.
    “Thanks for the gum,” she said quietly to Mfumbe.
    He nodded. “How are you doing?”
    “Been better.” She wanted to get off this topic quickly. “Tell me more about Decode,” she said.
    “Zekeal’s our Decode expert,” Mfumbe said.
    “All Senator Young is saying is that there should always be an alternative to the bar code. That way you’re free to get the stupid tattoo or not get it,” Zekeal told her. “It’s simple, really.”
    Kayla reached for the petition and signed.
    “Okay — an independent thinker!” Zekeal cheered.
    Nedra appeared at his side and ran her hand along his arm. “I have to get to my locker. Are you coming?”
    “Yeah, sure,” he replied. Nedra tugged and he let her pull him away.
    August and Allyson joined Mfumbe and Kayla. Allyson handed Kayla a magazine. “Check our ’zine, KnotU2 ,” she offered. “It’ll tell you about Decode.”
    “That’s the name of our website, too,” August added. He pushed some buttons on his small computer and the website opened just as the final morning tone sounded.
    “Astral,” Kayla said, impressed with the wildly colorful graphics. “I’ll check it out on my computer later.”
    Kayla hurried to her class and slid into her seat just as her World Literature teacher was about to shut the door. Their assignment was to open the e-readers built into their desks and finish reading an article in the Tribune E-Journal . Instead, she folded the ’zine over her e-reader screen, flattened it, and began to read.
    KnotU2
    be more than a cog in the machinery
    First Your Food — Then Your Soul
    By Allyson Minor
    You all know Global-1 — the worldwide corporate superpower that has been unofficially controlling just about everything from behind the scenes since 2011. You know them because theirname is on everything from your cereal box to the high-speed bus you ride to school.
    It’s even on our country’s leader. Our current president, billionaire Loudon Waters, was one of the founding members of Global-1. It’s clear that he’s only concerned about increasing Global-1’s fortune and power. He couldn’t care less about our liberties or freedoms. All he and his “advisers” care about is maintaining global domination to secure their obscene wealth.
    If you think I’m paranoid, consider this: Global-1 already owns all the food in the world .
    No kidding.
    The entire world! All the food!
    Way back in the 1990s, biotech companies began splicing different genes into already existing plants. They created some new plants. They changed the flavor, taste, and shape of others. They made some crops drought resistant, or able to repel bugs and immune to weed killers. They called these new plants GMOs — genetically modified organisms. They took out patents on everything they created, which meant they owned these new creations.
    Oh, and they did one other very interesting thing: They created seeds that don’t regenerate new crops. These were called “terminator seeds.” For centuries, farmers had been growing new plants from the seeds they got for free from their harvest. But their crops weren’t as bright, big, andhigh yielding as the biotech crops. If they wanted to compete, they needed biotech seeds — seeds that they had to buy new every year. And eventually those biotech seeds mixed with the other seeds, so the biotech companies began to claim ownership of those, too.
    During this time, a company owned by Global-1 began to quietly buy up all the smaller biotech corporations. Now there is only one biotech company in the entire world, AgroGlobal.
    Face it: Any group that controls the world’s food controls the world.
    AgroGlobal owns all the food. If they decide not to sell seed to a certain group or nation, they can do that. Any group who defies AgroGlobal can last just one growing season before they begin to starve.
    They control you, too.