Garlic: friend or foe?

Something I have only just read about recently is the nature of the garlic that is sold to us in Australia.

At present I am still trying to dispute these facts that I have become aware of, and so far have been unable.

Is this as good for our health as we are told?

The information I have to hand is that 90% of all garlic in Australia is imported. While that in itself is of concern in regards to how good it can be transported from afar, the main issue is ho wit is fumigated during quarantine.

Every bulb is fumigated with Methyl Bromide, purported to be one of the deadliest chemica

l – it is a poison.

A description provided in The Australian Fruit & Vegetabel Garden (Clice

Blazey and Jane Varkulevicius) puts it as …”a biological nuclear bomb, it kills weeds, insects and bacterias etc, rendering soils sterile and lifeless. …”

Not as young as I once was, I feel I may have heard of this before. Yet I haven’t.

I would think that as consumers there is a certain degree of knowledge we need in determining what we eat, and how it arrives at our doors.

I am going to continue to update this article with some of the research I am doing into the topic….

more to come

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