National Garlic Day is a day to celebrate a versatile bulb that can be used for everything from a delicious spread on toast to medical purposes. Garlic is said to have antibiotic properties and can also allegedly wards off vampires. No wonder so many people want to get their hands on it. While some choose to buy it from their local farmers market, others choose the more criminal route… a heist. Several instances of garlic theft have been committed in 2021. Two of the largest include:
– An Alberta garlic farm thieves hit the farm (not once, but twice) making off with about 1,500 garlic plants yanked out of the ground. The garlic heists resulted in losses of approximately $3,000. [1]
– Earlier last year, Pakistan Agriculture Research Council developed a new variety of high-yielding garlic with a production potential of 24 tonnes per hectare. Over 264 kilograms of garlic that was produced from the newly developed high-yield seed (HG-1) has been stolen from the National Agricultural Research Centre. NARC said that the stolen was worth millions of rupees. The official documents show that the unknown perpetrators nicked 16 bags of groundbreaking produce. [2]
Keep your garlic close on National Garlic Day!
[1] CBC News Canada
“Bulb bandits: Massive Alberta garlic heist likely
destined to become a stolen seed crop”
Posted: Aug 10, 2021
[2] The correspondent PK article
“High-yield garlic seeds worth millions stolen”
Published: September 13, 2021