That's an odd connection of two news stories. I read a few weeks ago that the seeds were marked as being sent from China, but nobody knows why. There was some speculation that it might be part of some weird fraud scheme that I didn't really look into nor understand.

You know a lot of people who get these in the mail do plant them. I'd be tempted to just to see what they are, but of course they could be an incredibly invasive species that could wipe out, say, the US soybean industry! So maybe not a great idea.