The author of the article contacted many people who has received the seeds and all of them found they had ordered seeds online in their Amazon purchase history

The author of the article contacted many people who has received the seeds and all of them found they had ordered seeds online in their Amazon purchase history and forgotten about it. It was early in the pandemic and there was a run on seeds. The seeds showed up months late and they didn’t connect the seeds received with the seeds ordered. Most didn’t realize they were ordering seeds from a Chinese seller. One person was part of a seed gifting group.