The severed feet found on beaches near Seattle and Vancouver

As for why we’re noticing more reports of these feet on beaches, Taylor said it’s partly due to the media keeping people on their toes, so now beachgoers investigate whether a lone sneaker has a foot in it.

"keeping people on their toes" -They just couldn't resist.

I was also amused by this writing in the article:

"Severed feet routinely wash ashore in the Pacific Northwest due to several converging natural causes"

Yes the routine nature of random feet.. nothing to see here folks it's just the Tuesday shoe day.

Also severed/several

I think you mean Shoe Saturday.

More specifically, sole-searching beachgoers.

They used pigs in that test because scientifically whatever works on pigs meat, it will work the same way on humans, in fact, pork meats pretty much resemble the human ones even in taste, “that human flesh tastes rather like good pork only a bit tougher and a bit more bitter” [1], and also the term “long pork”..

[1] https://allthatsinteresting.com/what-does-human-taste-like

> Update, August 23, 2023: This story, originally published in 2017, has been updated several times as new feet have been found along the coast of the Salish Sea.