 They propose to do this by adding selective poisons to certain food shipments to grossly over-populated areas.They attempt to blackmail biochemist Dr. Aaron Rodman into cooperating with their scheme (threatening to withhold food rations from his daughter's family if he doesn't comply), proposing to utilise his development of LP - a lipoprotein which when incorporated into foods will cause random deaths.The scheme is planned but Rodman is unwilling to go along with it.