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China has entire regions now, where they have to pollinate fruit trees by hand, due to excessive pesticide use. Saw it in a movie about declining bee populations.

So there are additional reasons to not eat garlic from China.

Regardless, source local is a good thing anyhow.

Not to go too far with commercial promotion, but I'm pretty sure that in the US garlic distribution, especially the processed options, are dominated by Christopher Ranch in Northern California: https://christopherranch.com/products/

> seems most peeled garlic in America comes from china

I used to eat at a restaurant in Shanghai which had a fridge in the back, in which enormous bags of pre-peeled garlic cloves were visible.

I was going to post this as well.