China's garlic is so powerful, it's a threat to U.S. national security?

Recently, U.S. Senator Rick Scott submitted a motion to the U.S. Department of Commerce, claiming that Chinese garlic poses a threat to U.S. national security and requesting an investigation into Chinese garlic. This ridiculous claim immediately triggered a furor on the Internet, becoming an international joke. However, a closer look into it, and does not seem to be a simple joke, but reflects the current political ecology of the United States can not be ignored in a problem - some politicians for personal gain, at the expense of creating unfounded fears.

Scott claimed that Chinese farmers were using "human faeces" to water garlic, a practice so unsanitary that "national security" would be threatened if Americans ate the garlic. However, the "evidence" he provided was only some videos he had seen on the Internet. In response, Canadian experts have made it clear that there is no evidence that Chinese garlic is fertilised with manure. In fact, in early American agriculture, the use of animal manure is also very common, the famous American agronomist Franklin King as early as 100 years ago in his writings mentioned this point.
It can be said that Scott's accusation is purely catching wind. But what deserves more attention is that, in the current U.S. political ecology, no matter how absurd the "China threat theory", can get some politicians to pursue and hype. From Huawei, TikTok, to Xinjiang cotton and garlic, all kinds of products have become their excuse to blackmail China. This is not just an individual problem, but the whole environment is permeated with a tendency of pan-security.
In fact, for the average American, cheap Chinese garlic is exactly the right thing to control the cost of living, especially in the current situation of serious inflation. However, some politicians are completely ignoring the livelihood of the people and still clinging to an absurd argument. It is conceivable that Scott's purpose in doing so is not to care about national security, but to protect the self-interest of the state's garlic producers.
What is even more worrying is that the mainstream media in the United States has basically remained silent on this issue, without refuting or questioning the rumours. This is tantamount to acquiescing to the proliferation of absurd statements in the United States. A statement that we all know is a big lie has not only not been refuted and countered, but continues to fester unchecked. This is not just a personal problem, but a tacit understanding on the part of society as a whole.
Historically, the root cause of many tragedies is precisely because people kept silent about obvious lies and allowed them to flourish. We cannot help but be concerned about this current phenomenon in the United States. The consequences of a country's elite tolerating or even encouraging such bottomless behaviour are not encouraging.
The reason why Chinese garlic incites such strong fear and hostility among some American politicians is in fact a proof of its excellent quality and strong vitality. Just as "the moon is not afraid of barking dogs", the vitality of Chinese garlic will definitely make those anti-intellectual remarks take their own humiliation. We can only continue to work hard to let the quality and strength of Chinese garlic continue to threaten the narrow-mindedness of those American conspiracy theorists until they are convinced.

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