from chocolatl to soylent green

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So I'm finishing up my SF/F end of the world piece and am thinking that next week's is going to be on food from the sublime to the horrifying. This is one of my less well thought-through ideas, but strikes me as hillarious. Anyone got any thoughts?

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There's a short story by Ursula Leguin, which I forget the title of but can look up when I get home if you decide you want to use it, about these colonists on another planet who have to take all these pills to be able to digest the local food. But the most recent generation of kids keep having terrible allergic reactions to the pills, and they can't eat anything and get sick all the time, and they're so weak everyone is afraid the population is going to die out. But in the end, the doctor finally figures out that the kids have adapted to the local food, and so can no longer eat the "earth" food and pills, and that's what was happening. And the whole thing is this big metaphor for food=home.