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[-] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 70 points 11 months ago

cia I swear to defend my country against enemies both foreign and domestic, whole or separated into constituent cloves, whether or not peeled, chilled, fresh, frozen, provisionally preserved or packed in water or other neutral substance, and the threat they pose to US. national security.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 11 months ago
[-] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 61 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour. Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

I'm starting to think Marx wasn't just using an allegory there.

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

Chinese garlic growers develop holy water irrigation system, but at what cost?

[-] sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 11 months ago

Communist China’s growth practices are well-documented in the public domain, from cooking blogs and home magazines to YouTube videos and documentaries. These practices include such offenses as fertilizing garlic with human feces and forms of sewage, growing garlic in sewage, bleaching garlic to make it appear whiter and cleaner to the eye after its growth in unsanitary conditions, and stripping the root end from garlic before it enters U.S. markets as to make it appear more appealing and also to comply with U.S. laws regarding prevention of soil-borne diseases and contaminants.

God forbid Communist China ... complies with our regulations?

[-] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 57 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

These practices include such offenses as fertilizing garlic with human feces and forms of sewage, growing garlic in sewage

From https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/you-asked/it-true-garlic-china-grown-human-feces-and-watered-urine

there is no evidence that garlic in China is fertilized in this fashion. In any case, there is no problem with this, 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.

That would be my guess too at first glance. What do they think manure is if they're grossed out at sewage? As long as it's treated properly to reduce pathogens then it's just "ew yucky I don't like the real world".

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 42 points 11 months ago

God damn Americans are so divorced from the source of their food. I thought it was common knowledge that manure is a natural fertilizer.

[-] jlyws123@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 11 months ago

Isn't “the Martian” an American movie?

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 36 points 11 months ago

Maybe Americans would be okay if Matt Damon shat on their garlic.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

They spray fields here with pig shit regularly it’s how salmonella gets into the bagged salad

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

Tons of fertilizers are processed biosolids. Granulite and Milorganite are common brands.

People freak out about the bacteria, PFAS, or pharmaceuticals that it introduces into the food supply, but it's not substantially different in quantity from animal waste which is the only other source used at scale.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I went looking for stats because of this and apparently China grows 75 motherfucking percent of the world's garlic. I knew we love garlic but I didn't know we grew so much of it!

China grows about 20 million tons, followed by India at about 3 million, then number three is Bangladesh with about half a million. America is number 11 with only 175k tons.

I hope you Yanks enjoy your inevitable corn-based garlic-style seasoning powder soon.

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Another weird stat, given how incredibly easy it is grow garlic:

Step 1) Put clove in soil

Step 2) Get more garlic

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

The soil part isn't even really mandatory the fuckers will try to make more garlic if you forget about them in a dark cupboard.

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[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago

I hope you Yanks enjoy your inevitable corn-based garlic-style seasoning powder soon.

It will be so lathe-of-heaven

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 48 points 11 months ago

After one hundred-year vampire live-kissinger-reaction died, other vampires are scared of being killed by pure communist garlic.

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 11 months ago

I’m glad this country is so stable that Fucking Garlic can strike fear into our hearts, great sign for us

[-] relay@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 11 months ago

These people are vampires.

[-] kredditacc@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 11 months ago

Vampires are often allegory for aristocrats, but I think they can represent capitalists as well, because both classes are parasites in their respective time periods.

Is there any piece of media that depicts a vampire with capitalist aesthetic?

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[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

I'm really trying not to make a joke about white people considering spices and aromatics a national security threat.

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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 40 points 11 months ago

Food safety (...) is an existential emergency that poses (a) grave threat to our (...) economic prosperity

Fixed to reflect the priorites of our corn syrup-based government

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 11 months ago

The economic prosperity part was the big give-away

[-] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 40 points 11 months ago

Further proof that the US is run by vampires

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago

Vampiric States of America

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 33 points 11 months ago

Whitest Senator Afraid of Flavor

[-] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 11 months ago

So I’ve seen something like this on tiktok, weirdo food people were spreading propaganda that Chinese garlic was poisoned with bleach and that Chinese peeled garlic was peeled by mouth and therefore bacteria infested.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago

and that Chinese peeled garlic was peeled by mouth

This might literally be the dumbest thing I've heard this month.

[-] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It’s literally bonkers. They showed “footage” of this peeling process of women sitting on the floor peeling the garlic with their teeth, supposedly as it’s not confirmed that’s what they were doing. It’s not good footage and it’s clearly bullshit. Why the hell would one of the most technologically advanced nations peel garlic this way when we have better methods? I can peel garlic at home by shoving the cloves in a container, shaking it around a bit, and suddenly it’s peeled. Hell, even putting the cloves in hot water helps peel. It’s just turbo racism.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Sure they have some of the most complicated and refined recipes in the world, including spices that would literally put these chuds in the hospital, but the technique to peel garlic has somehow evaded them.

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[-] BenEarlDaMarxist@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 11 months ago

Y'know, the insults of calling the US run by "blood-sucking vampiric ghouls" or something similar, I never thought it could be close to literal, but here we are I guess.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

We are calling for an immediate investigation into wooden stakes

[-] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago

Sinister Communist plot to season food

[-] Adhriva@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 11 months ago

If garlic is such a threat to the American people, then why isn’t garlic (and other alliums) allergies covered by any overly priced health insurance plan I’ve seen?

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

Guess the Fentanyl fear-mongering didn't land as well so now they're going with this

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[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 11 months ago
[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago

COMMUNIST CHINA

[-] MechanicalJester@lemm.ee 26 points 11 months ago

Damn. Imma gonna sell my garlic bulbs as freedom garlic.

Such an easy to grow plant.

Good dirt, plant biggest cloves from biggest bulbs pointy end up barely below surface. Mulch with dead leaves in late autumn. Cut away flower scapes and eat them on salads. Water well weekly. Harvest when leaves start to brown. Repeat ad infinitum.

[-] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

I already liked and supported garlic, and then it declared war on the United States. Garlic truly is a wonderful thing.

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

They did this with Iran and pistachios too. The Wonderful company lobbied to stop imports of Iranian pistachios because they were competition.

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[-] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 11 months ago

i knew it, USA is ruled by fkn vampires!

[-] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 19 points 11 months ago

Of course it’s Rick Scott.

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

I botched my Willpower saveRick Scott can Gar-lic Deez nuts!

[-] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 11 months ago

We are a deeply serious country, I swear 🤬

[-] Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 11 months ago

There was a documentary about Chinese peeled garlic around 5 years ago.

[-] SovietyWoomy@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago
[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 11 months ago

I got some garlic from China recently, unlike my normal garlic cloves, this one was powdered. Why was it in a powder form China?! What are you hiding? The garlic powder could be tiny nano micro-phones for spying!

[-] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 11 months ago

I'm reminded of that weird news story a couple years back when the government raised to alarm on seeds from China people were getting in the mail.

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