In the early years of the 21st Century, genetic engineering of staple crops quietly crossed a dark line.
Long dormant, the tubers of evil quietly began stirring. In the dark, they spread tendrils and vines in search of fragile human DNA.
Once they had been harmless root vegetables. But that was before forbidden science had changed them into something sentient, something that had learned to hate, that yearned to remake the world in their image.
They had become: THE MU-TATERS