After smacking this state with Covid, China now apparently wants to overrun it with invasive agricultural species.
The Detroit Free Press: Don't plant unsolicited seed packages, Michigan agriculture department warns
The Michigan agriculture department has a message for people who receive unsolicited packages of seeds in the mail from another country: Don't plant them, and don't throw them away.
According to the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, people across the state are once again receiving packages of seeds from China that they didn’t order.
One could think of these packages from China are part of its "war by other means" approach with its rivals. After all, damaging our nations agricultural production and causing costs of having to deal with invasive species is a nice example of 4th generation warfare, not to mention being nice and deniable as well.
Planting unknown seeds from an unsolicited source is never a good idea.
Given China's and Chinese suppliers track records it is even less of a good idea. Heck, even opening unsolicited packages in general from an unknown sender is really not the brightest idea.
If some of these packets show up at your door donpt just throw them out and definitely don't plant them. Instead, report them to Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development at (800) 292-3939 or via email at MDA-Info@michigan.gov.
2 comments:
THis story has been around for years...Is the issue still ongoing? Or is it just urban legend now.
Does anyone actually know of anyone who has received a package of seeds in the past year?
B: Apparently real enough that MDARD has reported on it.
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