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.
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!
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”
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 refers to practices which, he says, have been "well documented" in online videos, cooking blogs and documentaries, including growing garlic in sewage.
crazy conservatives on the crazy conservative part of youtube
Based on your downvotes and consistent experience in other parts of Lemmy I’m starting to believe the average Lemmy user is bad at general reading comprehension
The proportion of people who can’t read between the lines and can’t parse more than one logic-altering operator in a sentence is way too damn high! Like really off. Worse than reddit in that way, I hate to admit.
when I posted that, the root comment was getting downvoted to hell, while all the other comments with the same position where getting a lot of upvotes
-all except for another root comment using clear sarcasm to express the same.
I’ve seen this far, far more frequently here on Lemmy than anywhere else on the internet. Maybe that person making statistical inferences that Lemmy might have a lot more autistic people relatively could be right.
I have definitely never eaten a clove of raw garlic on a dare, nor have i done it again to show that i am plenty capable of eating an entire glove of raw garlic.
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