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County Advising Residents Not To Touch, Plant Mailed Chinese Seed Pods

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(Martinez, CA) – The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has recently become aware of a number of reports regarding unsolicited seeds from China being received by homeowners throughout the US, including Contra Costa County. CDFA is communicating with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine any necessary actions for shipments received in California.

In the meantime, CDFA is instructing residents NOT to open any unsolicited seed packets received and to contact their local county agricultural commissioner’s office. Seed packets should NOT be opened, shipped, or disposed of by residents in order to prevent potential dispersal of invasive species, diseases, and/or quarantine pests. Unopened seed packets should be held by the resident or county official until further instructions are provided.

Please contact the Contra Costa Agricultural Commissioner’s Office at (925) 608-6600 if you received seeds in the mail that you did not order or have questions.  If you are in possession of any of these seed packets, we will arrange for an inspector to pick it up at your convenience.  If seeds have already been planted, please retrieve the seeds and any contaminated soil for pickup by a county Agricultural inspector.

NOTE: Do not open seed packets. Do not plant unsolicited seeds. Contact us.

5 COMMENTS

  1. It’s nothing to worry about. It’s just one foreign nation kindly helping another with their democratic election process. Think pods. Think invasion of the body snatchers, and relax. Resistance is fruitile.

  2. SEEDS of DESTRUCTION

    The eastern world, it is explodin’,
    Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’,
    You’re old enough to kill but not for votin’,
    You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’,
    And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin’,
    But you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
    Ah, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction.

    Don’t you understand, what I’m trying to say?
    And can’t you feel the fears I’m feeling today?
    If the button is pushed, there’s no running away,
    There’ll be no one to save with the world in a grave,
    Take a look around you, boy, it’s bound to scare you, boy,
    And you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
    Ah, you don’t believe we’re sowing the seeds of destruction.

    Yeah, my blood’s so mad, feels like coagulatin’,
    I’m sittin’ here, just contemplatin’,
    I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
    Handful of Senators don’t pass legislation,
    And marches alone can’t bring integration,
    When human respect is disintegratin’,
    This whole crazy world is just too frustratin’,
    And you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
    Ah, you don’t believe we’re sowing the seeds of destruction.

    Think of all the hate there is in Red China!
    Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama!
    Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space,
    But when your return, it’s the same old place,
    The poundin’ of the drums, the pride and disgrace,
    You can bury your dead, but don’t leave a trace,
    Hate your next door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace,
    And you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend,
    You don’t believe we’re reaping the whirlwind of destruction.
    No, no, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction.

    With apologies to P.F. Sloan and Barry McGuire for the slight alterations, a mere 55 years later

    DON’T PLANT THOSE SEEDS!!

  3. I’m beginning to think this is nothing more than a bunch of bored Chinese factory workers using their accedss to Amazon mailing lists and cheap stuff to get us back for all those China Virus cracks from the White House.

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