Chinese garlic is a national security risk, says US senator
Rick Scott says Chinese garlic grown in sewage is unsafe and poses a threat to national security.
This is the most literal "not the onion" post I've ever seen.
I thought the same thing!
Republican Senator Rick Scott
Say no more
Goddamnit Florida....go home you're drunk and high.
Oh it's Ricky Dick.
Headline seems a bit hyperbolic. Sounds like he's saying it's a public health risk, not a national security risk. I don't know if it's either one, but healing seems sensational.
He directly says it's both:
"Food safety and security is an existential emergency that poses grave threats to our national security, public health, and economic prosperity."
Ah, okay, I missed that
I smell vampire lobbying.
Kinda gamey
"Communist" garlic?!?
I'll be damned before my tomato sauce seasoning seizes the means of production.
Seasons the means of production you mean
COVID is no big deal but Communist Sewage Garlic is an immediate threat. I'm ashamed that this is one of my senators.
Not The Garlic
Chinese garlic is very obviously being grown indoors in hydroponics/aeroponics or some sort of greenhouse setup - There has never been a speck of dirt on it. The heads are of extremely consistent size. Listen I prefer local garlic because its many times more flavorful, but I keep garlic so long it sprouts as it is. So I buy it at the grocery store year-round.
Instead of Chinese garlic I just use the jar of preserved minced garlic at Costco when no local garlic is available. It's grown in California and basically pickled in citric acid. It adds a little sourness but it's better than buying questionable produce from China IMO.
I also have a shitload of onions hanging in the basement from my garden and they are so potent it makes up for any garlic weakness!
Jarlic
There are documentaries showing Chinese prisoners being forced to peel garlic to the point they lose fingernails. The US levied heavy tariffs due to the dumping (fine with slave labor though I guess), then the Chinese used other countries as a middle man to get around them. I doubt it's a national security risk, but it's absolutely fucked up.
Don't buy peeled garlic.
He refers to practices which, he says, have been "well documented" in online videos, cooking blogs and documentaries, including growing garlic in sewage.
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It's a security risk because it doesn't deter vampires
Sort of ignorant to how "sewage" is actually used as fertilizer, the same microbial processes that make animal sewage safe can make human sewage safe. Anyone with a septic system on their home sees how this works.
Mushrooms are also grown in literal shit but it's steam sterilized.
We're strongly advised not to grow anything edible within 10' of our septic leach field. I don't see how septic shows the average home owner that human sewage can be made safe.
That is cow shit, not human shit. It's already safe, it's just grass and the bacteria that ferment it. Human waste has human pathogens in it.
Carnivore waste in general is more foul and we have an instinctive disgust response to it.
Farm anecdote time, if you wipe out and fall in cow shit it's like "lol I got cow shit all over me better take a shower when we're done" but if you even step in dog shit it's "oh nasty hang on I got dog shit on my boot I gotta scrape it off right now"
Cattle can get both listeria and salmonella, which are human pathogens.
"This Garlic is Shit"
