Republican Senator Rick Scott has written to the commerce secretary, claiming Chinese garlic is unsafe, citing unsanitary production methods.
“a severe public health concern over the quality and safety of garlic grown in foreign countries - most notably, garlic grown in Communist China”.
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He refers to practices which, he says, have been “well documented” in online videos, cooking blogs and documentaries, including growing garlic in sewage
Senator Scott also goes into much detail about the different types of garlic that should be looked into: “All grades of garlic, whole or separated into cloves, whether or not peeled, chilled, fresh, frozen, provisionally preserved or packed in water or other neutral substance.”
they are hiding the garlic in the chili crisp, in the black bean paste, in the hoisin sauce,
The Office for Science and Society at McGill University in Quebec, which attempts to popularise and explain scientific issues, says there is “no evidence” that sewage is used as a fertiliser for growing garlic in China.
“In any case, there is no problem with this,” an article published by the university in 2017 says.
“Human waste is as effective a fertilizer as is animal waste. Spreading human sewage on fields that grow crops doesn’t sound appealing, but it is safer than you might think.”
ummm you can’t just use poop as fertilizer, that’s authoritarian
at the Stop Communist Poop Garlic protest but im surrounded by lizard people with Dupont name tags lol ??
Use of untreated sewage is not safe for agriculture but use of treated sewage biosolids is generally fine and is common all over the world including in the west. There is a lot of hay made from biosolids having forever chemicals like PFAS in them but so does everything else around here.