Ohio health officials have been acting with urgency recently due to the threat of Avian Flu. The disease has infected poultry in several parts of Asia but has not yet spread to the United States. The flu can prove deadly to humans, and the U.S. government has banned all imports of poultry from Asia.

On Thursday, authorities began finding packages of boneless chicken feet at oriental markets that had been smuggled in from Thailand and labeled as jellyfish. Agent Penny Mackland was absolutely disgusted to find that many Asians consider boneless chicken feet a delicacy. "Oh, god, get out of here, they do not!," exclaimed Ms. Mackland, when told of this culinary oddity. "They do not stick those nasty things into their mouths".

Penny's friend and colleague Lieutenant Dennis was also skeptical of the theory that the feet were meant for human consumption, even though Deputy Chief Health Official Higgins had told him that this was indeed the case. "Penny begged me to prove him wrong, so I got on the web and searched. There it was, articles, pictures, recipes, the whole shebang. Man, oh man, I've never seen that, even on 'Fear Factor'. I tried to put the best face on the situation and tell Penny that it was a big old world out there, but she just started bawling".

"I always try to treat everybody as an equal," said Ms. Mackland,  "but those days are sadly gone".