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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emmett Garrett)
Tue Jul 20 11:45:34 2021
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:41:08 -0400
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To: <linuxch-announce.discuss@charon.mit.edu>
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<!--The few seeds Clancy could not identify, he forwarded to national bot=
anists in Maryland. There, they did molecular testing that could pick up ev=
idence of any viruses, bacteria, or other organisms. They grew the seeds in=
their quarantined facilities, looking for any signs that they may have bee=
n genetically modified. They also mapped where the seeds had been sent, loo=
king for any correlation with crucial agricultural infrastructure or key na=
tural resources. ?We have one of the most sophisticated safeguarding system=
s, probably in the world,? El-Lissy told me. If something nefarious was hap=
pening, they were doing all they could to find it. The one rule on =
which there was consensus from the beginning was this: Do not plant the see=
ds. Problem was, some people already had. The poster child for this?insomuc=
h as a 70-something retiree from the oil and gas industry can be a poster c=
hild?was a man named Doyle Crenshaw. Crenshaw, who lives in Boonevi=
lle, Arkansas, was watching Channel 5 in late July 2020 when he saw an item=
about Chinese seeds. He knew just what they were talking about. A couple o=
f months earlier, he?d received precisely such a package: ?studded earrings=
,? Chinese writing on the envelope, light-colored seeds inside. They?d arri=
ved at the same time as some ?exotic zinnia seeds? that Crenshaw had ordere=
d, but he hadn?t a clue what these other seeds were. He thought, Well, I?ll=
just plant them, see what happens. He cleared some space in the ra=
ised beds where he and his wife grew lettuce and tomatoes, and every couple=
of weeks applied a booster of MiracleGro. That seemed to work. First came =
bright-green five-lobed leaves, then orange flowers, and then some strange =
kind of fruit that started out greenish but soon turned off-white. =
?I ain?t never seen anything it looked like,? Crenshaw told me. ?It was abo=
ut 14 inches long and four or five inches round.? He broke one open; its fl=
esh smelled sweet. His grandson wanted to taste it, but Crenshaw vetoed thi=
s. ?Nah, better not.?
Crenshaw dutifully contacted Channel 5. It was hardly surprising th=
at the station, upon hearing that a local man had not only planted mystery =
seeds but now had fully grown plants laden with mystery fruit, was interest=
ed. Crenshaw was filmed standing next to the plants, explaining about the M=
iracleGro and how ?they just started growing crazy.? As the camera panned o=
ver the leaves, a voice-over explained: ?Experts are unsure what this plant=
really is, but the concern is it turning out to be an invasive species, wh=
ich could hurt local agriculture.?
After the segment aired, ?I was a celebrity in town?everybody recog=
nized me,? Crenshaw told me. Reporters started calling from ?Dallas, Missis=
sippi, Oklahoma City, Kansas, Canada ? one from France.?
Eventually, he?d had enough. ?It got to bugging me,? he said, ?havi=
ng to talk so much on the phone ? It?s the same story every time?it ain?t g=
oing to change.? Crenshaw told me all this quite amiably, as though the exp=
erience had confirmed that there are kinds of absurdity out in the world th=
at he had previously only suspected. It was Crenshaw?s doctor who t=
old him that he was famous on the internet. That was true, though if Crensh=
aw had looked closely, he might not have liked what he saw. One easy way to=
spin this tale was to cast Crenshaw in the role of the fool?the naive rura=
l fool. No matter that Crenshaw had planted the seeds long before there was=
any specific advice not to, or that he was far from alone. The Arkansas Pl=
ant Industries Division told me that it dug up plants in about 30 such case=
s. At one point, the state was deploying 25 agriculture inspectors, 13 Bure=
au of Standards inspectors, five pest-control inspectors, and two inspector=
s of honeybee apiaries to deal with these seeds and any resulting plants. =
An official bagged up Crenshaw?s mystery plants and took them away. =
A few days later, Crenshaw received a call from Little Rock, letting him kn=
ow that what he?d been growing had been identified: It was Chinese watermel=
on. To be precise, Benincasa hispida, a vine whose fruit is also known as a=
wax gourd or winter melon. By the time officials came to pick up t=
he plants, Crenshaw had received a second unsolicited packet of the same se=
eds. He handed them over as well. Three days after that, a third packet arr=
ived. What did he figure was going on?
?Oh, I had no idea,? he told me affably, as though I were wasting b=
oth his time and mine by asking. ?Nor did I care.?
Magnified seeds with X-rayed seeds behind them
Doyle crenshaw was one of the most prominent seed recipients, but p=
lenty of others enjoyed or endured a moment of celebrity last summer. I spo=
ke with several, but the most remarkable story I found came from a woman na=
med Chris Alwhite, who had posted a single sentence on the Louisiana Depart=
ment of Agriculture and Forestry?s Facebook page: ?I have about 50 of these=
packs from china.? Before I contacted her, I presumed that this would turn=
out to be a joke, or an exaggeration. I certainly didn?t imagine that it w=
ould be true. And it wasn?t?or not exactly. After the seeds stopped=
arriving, toward the end of last year, Alwhite gathered all the packets, p=
ut them in a big plastic Walmart bag, and stashed them in a drawer in her S=
hreveport home. At my request, she opened the bag and counted the packages =
as I stayed on the phone. It took a while. ?Five hundred nineteen,?=
she eventually declared.--->=20
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as a member of Facebook gifting groups, a phenomenon in which people social=
ize online and buy one another items from their Amazon wish lists. On her l=
ist, Alwhite had maybe 25 different vegetable, fruit, and flower seeds??whe=
n my grandbabies had come up for the summer, I had promised them a big gard=
en,? she explained to me?so she wasn?t surprised when seed packets started =
arriving. But she soon realized that something wasn?t right. As she underst=
ood it, items sent via the gifting group would come with a name, or, if the=
donor wanted to stay anonymous, a barcode so that you could thank your ben=
efactor without knowing who they were. But the packets Alwhite received, la=
beled as jewelry or wire connectors, had none of those details. And they ju=
st kept coming?three or four or five a day. For some reason, Alwhite had be=
come what we might term a super-receiver. ?It went on for months and months=
and months,? she said. ?I just stopped opening them.? Last July, when she =
heard that others were receiving seeds, she contacted the Louisiana agricul=
ture department. That call didn?t go the way it was supposed to. ?They were=
like, ?Oh, it?s a hoax ? Plant them or toss them, do what you want,?? Alwh=
ite recalled. ?That?s Louisiana for you.?
She didn?t follow the advice (which directly contradicted the agency?s publ=
ic statements asking people to mail the seeds to state labs). ?I have pets!=
? she told me. ?For all I know, it?s going to be some eight-foot-tall Venus=
flytrap in my house. I?m going to come home from the grocery store and fin=
d my cats and my dogs all missing.?
I described Alwhite?s experience to El-Lissy; he said that the USDA would b=
e keen to examine her seeds. They would join all the other unexplained seed=
packages the USDA has gathered since last summer?a collection that, as of =
June, numbers 19,841. Once all the investigations are completed, perhaps so=
me will be kept for future reference, or be added to the department?s seed =
library, or be used for training. Anything that is not needed will be incin=
erated??the most proper way,? El-Lissy said, ?of destroying things like tha=
t.?
In late july 2020, a retired postal worker from Massachusetts shared a thou=
ght on Twitter:
The 2020 election assistance Trump said he would accept if available is com=
ing RIGHT NOW, not DIRECTLY from China but from surrogates?probably poor Ch=
inese citizens desperate for income. They are mailing seeds to US residents=
/voters in order to further undermine mail in voting. Others echoed him:
?China did this to find out which US addresses were still valid for mail-in=
and absentee ballots!?
?Communist China will mail millions of fake ballots. They already did their=
test run with toxic seeds to ALL 50 states.?
There were plenty of problems with this theory, beyond the fact that there =
was no evidence it was true. For instance: If the seeds were related to the=
U.S. election, why send them to other countries? Why deliver them to all 5=
0 states, most of which would be electorally irrelevant? And what specifica=
lly could be achieved?for all the talk of test runs and undermining?by succ=
essfully shipping packages to American addresses?
Perhaps that?s why this particular delusion never took hold. But people kep=
t looking for dramatic explanations, as if only something extraordinary cou=
ld explain something so odd.--->
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