Rick Scott says Chinese garlic grown in sewage is unsafe and poses a threat to national security.
  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    231·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • HerrBeter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      10 months ago

      They also use slave labour. In prisons they maul their fingers until they have no nails, then they work them to the bone. Every day all day

    • evranch@lemmy.caEnglish
      63·
      10 months ago

      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!

  • 11181514@lemm.eeEnglish
    191·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • Ranvier@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    13·
    10 months ago

    “Communist” garlic?!?

    I’ll be damned before my tomato sauce seasoning seizes the means of production.

  • blazera@kbin.social
    7·
    10 months ago

    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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