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She was on a tourist visa. I do not know whether the sausage was genetically modified - the customs agent confiscated it, so I did not get to meet it. Yes, she
by tetromino_ 1y ago
She was on a tourist visa. I do not know whether the sausage was genetically modified - the customs agent confiscated it, so I did not get to meet it. Yes, she deliberately tried to conceal the sausage and lied that she had nothing to declare.
> You can't really be trying to say bringing an undeclared food item into the US is the same as intentionally smuggling genetic modified animals into the country?
I am saying precisely that. The reason why certain food items must be declared is that that those food items can contain various invasive microorganism species which have the potential to damage US agriculture and natural ecosystems.
And I am saying that this law was never enforced beyond a token slap on the wrist except in extraordinary egregious cases, which a frozen laboratory frog is not.