Re: Seed swaps

**Margaret Lauterbach melauter@earthlink.net>**

What really scorches me is that there's no inspection of stuff military 
people have shipped back to the States.  Some friends gave me their camel 
saddles, purchased in Turkey, I think, and shipped home by the military. 
The pads contained the nastiest mare's nest of vegetative material and 
seeds I've ever seen.  They could ship a sofa stuffed with cocaine, and 
nobody'd be the wiser. Meanwhile, good people are going to be smuggling 
seeds and risking a criminal record.   Margaret Lauterbach
At 11:51 AM 4/28/02 -0400, you wrote:
>One of the many ironies of the government's cracking down on plant imports to
>protect us all is that some of the worst thugs in town are those that were
>imported and promoted and even subsidized by government agencies.  I'm
>talking about the obvious ones like multiflora rose, kudzu and crown vetch,
>but I'd bet there are more I don't know about. Not that commercial
>horticulture's hands are squeaky clean (Lythrum, Miscanthus et al), but the
>legislative approach is a definite pot & kettle situation.
>
>JF
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