Is this done out of genuine concern about garlic or to mess with the import process by forcing them to perform checks on all garlic imports?

Is Rick Scott a satirist? This can’t be serious

We should form a new party, the GCP, or Garlic Clove Party

This is one of the typical hypocrisies by the US to engage in the protectionist policies that they claimed to oppose against their free trade slogan. This is typical of Breton Woods institutions by the Western European diaspora that are supposed to support free trade, but demand protectionism in industries that poor countries have an advantage in.

But haven't you heard of the Chinese garlic slaves? Their poor fingers...

They are so deathly allergic you see.