Seed warfare

I had read about people receiving seeds in the mail from unknown sources, but didn't know what it was about. Well, it is Chinese warfare against American agriculture.

Here is the link to the new China seeds incident: https://t.co/SIx8iU9tM7. https://t.co/A0xT16k0Ba

— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) February 8, 2025

This is the article from KHOU in Texas:

One Temu customer said they ordered a dog toy but received a package of seeds instead, according to Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.

HOUSTON — Two days after a state official urged Texans to be cautious with unsolicited packages from China, he said they're getting new reports from people who say they've also received the mystery seeds. On Wednesday, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller put out an alert after someone in the Brazoria County town of Clute received an unsolicited package containing seeds and a container of liquid... Invasive plants can damage native species and "substantially harm the Texas agriculture industry" by destroying crops, introducing disease to native plants and possibly harming livestock, Miller explained. “These packages should never have gotten through customs,” Miller said. “Without the proper documentation and consent, the shipment did not meet the entry conditions for the United States. We need to close this loophole in our biosecurity protections. It’s a vulnerability to national security."

Ironically I could not find a recent report about this on You tube, but here is the Newsweek report from 2020, and there are some videos about how the same thing happened in 2020: 

Old video about it:

the Chinese seeds are not all invasive species, but some are. And then you have the danger of insects and fungi inside the seed packets.

TED talk.

of course, the Colombian exchange of plants and animals ended up benefitting the world.