Seed sabotage

[Leadeye]

Received a warning from my local ag agency about unsolicited chinese seeds being sent to people. New sabotage from china?

 

[ashby koss]

I’m familiar with the import and illegal product dumping China used to offload dangerous hood to America. My opinion is that this is to get customs and import to look for AG items and miss the actual import illegality.

seeds are red herring. Watch for other more problematic imports.

if you ask me, we stop China.
full stop.
no caveats.

 

[Gaffer]

Here is some news on it:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...eeds-may-mailed-china-states-warn/5516852002/

This is pretty weird.. hope it is not like "The day of the Triffids"!

Ron

 

[Hkindiana]

I planted the Chinese seeds I received. They sprouted, and grew, REALLY FAST. Beautiful plants, but the darn things KEEP BITING ME.

 

[JettaKnight]

Planet Money did a podcast on China and seeds. Pretty interesting.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/26/884054668/seed-spy

 

[T.Lex]

Here is some news on it:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...eeds-may-mailed-china-states-warn/5516852002/

This is pretty weird.. hope it is not like "The day of the Triffids"!

Ron

Along those same lines, I remember reading a short story about an Earth expedition to a foreign planet. They found sentient life, living in a near utopian society that was primarily agrarian. They seemed to be completely defenseless, but there was evidence that other advanced civilizations had visited the planet because the life forms there had some technology that they didn't know how to use.

But, they invited the Terrans to inhabit the area. They showed how to plant crops for food. But, when those crops started getting attacked by pests, they showed the earthlings which species would would eliminate the pests. But, when those species started causing problems, the natives showed the Terrans which other species to bring in.

Eventually, the necessary species was the one that attacked the humans. So the humans left, quickly, leaving much of their technology....

At least that's how I remember the story going.

 

[Ingomike]

Along those same lines, I remember reading a short story about an Earth expedition to a foreign planet. They found sentient life, living in a near utopian society that was primarily agrarian. They seemed to be completely defenseless, but there was evidence that other advanced civilizations had visited the planet because the life forms there had some technology that they didn't know how to use.

But, they invited the Terrans to inhabit the area. They showed how to plant crops for food. But, when those crops started getting attacked by pests, they showed the earthlings which species would would eliminate the pests. But, when those species started causing problems, the natives showed the Terrans which other species to bring in.

Eventually, the necessary species was the one that attacked the humans. So the humans left, quickly, leaving much of their technology....

At least that's how I remember the story going.

Should have been a Star Trek episode...

 

[T.Lex]

Should have been a Star Trek episode...

I'm sure Kirk would've been able to sow his oats in the alien fields....

 

[Thor]

More biological warfare from the ChiComs.

 

[Phase2]

Here is a news release from Purdue including where to send any seeds:

Unsolicited seeds could wreak havoc on agriculture, environment, state officials warn

 

[1775usmarine]

China must want Americans to smoke that Chinese weed.

 

[Tombs]

China has been playing with in-depth gene editing for years now.

Hard telling what kind of hell those seeds could bring if someone were dumb enough to plant them... To deny the possibility in this atmosphere would be asinine.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I planted one of mine and it seems to be doing quite well. I don't know what all the hubub is about...

 

[printcraft]

Poppy?

 

[Thor]

S-e-e-eeeemore...FEED ME!

 

[Gabriel]

If you plant the seeds...

 

[d.kaufman]

 

[IndyBeerman]

China has been playing with in-depth gene editing for years now.

Hard telling what kind of hell those seeds could bring if someone were dumb enough to plant them... To deny the possibility in this atmosphere would be asinine.

Planting them more than likely was not the intent, but to have them tossed into the trash then off to the dump they go to grow unmolested growing as fast as the can.

 

[semperfi211]

I am sure plenty of the antifa and blm animals would gladly throw those seeds around crops if they had the chance.

 

[NKBJ]

Reminds me too much of the research on whether terminator genes could jump species.