Posted on 07/23/2020 6:08:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Over the past few weeks, people in Utah have been reporting mysterious packages theyve been receiving in the mail from China.
Lori Culley, who lives in Tooele, said she was excited to find two small packages in her mailbox on Tuesday. Although most of the writing on the outside was in Chinese, the label indicated there would be earrings inside.
I opened them up and they were seeds, Culley said. Obviously theyre not jewelry!
Culley couldnt understand why she would be receiving mislabeled seeds from China in the mail, but at first she didnt think much of it.
She posted about the strange incident on Facebook, where some of her friends reminded her plants and seeds are strictly regulated in Utah.
FOX 13 has confirmed the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food will likely team up with Customs and Border Protection agents to investigate.
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I think you mean Hogweed. That stuff is horrible, and it grows to be so huge in some areas. I’ve seen videos where it was being eradicated with machinery, so nobody had to get near it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum
OK...I should have limited my question to insects and botanicals.
‘Insects and botanicals’....
and I would add viruses.
(On the other hand, if we hadn’t been exposed to so many things in the past, from people coming here with all kinds of disease that we probably couldn’t even recognize when we WERE screening immigrants - we wouldn’t know about them, wouldn’t have adapted a certain immunity to many of them, or learned to cope with others of them through vaccines and therapies.)
Life and Nature are always a crapshoot - and crap happens.
But Americans have never failed to learn and progress through adversity - and we’ll get through all of this, too.
I wouldn’t trust any FedMob agency at this point. Probably investigate you if you do that.
If you get seeds in the mail and don’t feel good about them just burn them.
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Over the past few weeks, people in Utah have been reporting mysterious packages theyve been receiving in the mail from China.
" This is ecological and economic warfare. Send these seeds to the US department of agriculture."
Patty McCormick was very nice in person. Never pushed any one at the Memorabilia Show down the steps. /sarc
#29. They are spelled differently. /sarc
Apparently turning up in Oregon, too.
#35. Re “ Tribbles were cute and loveable”. Yes, and taste like chicken! Coming to a McDonald’s near you, Tribble Nuggets. You want BBQ sauce with them?
Um, Yes.
That was an incredibly disturbing scene. His screams were the most disturbing part of the movie.
I never thought that I would be so happy to see a young girl be killed by lightning. She had it coming:)
I’m not a vegetarian nor a vegan; but I would not eat a Tribble. I don’t eat fluffy, furry things.
I once bought catfish and tried cooking and eating it. I just couldn’t get beyond the memory of my brother’s squarium and its Pleco - and the fact that all catfish look sort of ‘furry’ to me, when they are alive.
I’ve probably eaten catfish at cookouts without knowing it, but I won’t buy and cook it. It’s just one of those weird ‘mind things’.
Is anyone else curious about this?
If you are a gardener you know that some plants are considered invasive species in some areas of the country and quite acceptable in others.
Black Locust is not allowed in my state of Michigan but in Ohio in considered perfectly fine.
Kudzu... the Chinese version.
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