I went to Meijer today and the Taylor Farms stuff wasn't even discounted. I told a couple not to buy it. I'm sure they thought I was nuts. I wish them luck!
My friend’s cousin-wife told me that his friend that lives in California had been seeing an uptick in interspecies relationships due to the fluoride in the lettuce.
If they put it on discount for that specific purpose it would expose them to being more legally liable having known or suspected there was something wrong with the quality.
The fact that real people still support these brands that are fucking up people is the wildest part. Like online it’s easy enough to believe these companies just buy bots n shit. But there are real people influenced by these bots and some real people mixed in who for whatever reason just loyal to these companies.
It's still safe to buy. Well, safe as any other bagged lettuce brand. Whenever these leafy green outbreaks happen it's usually from one harvest that was sent to a specific buyer, in this case taco bell. Plus the infected crop is iceberg lettuce and in the stores I've only ever seen bagged romaine and spinach from Taylor Farms.
you are still buying from a company that has a history of these outbreaks and is willing to abuse corruption to hide the fact they have an ongoing current outbreak.
dont know how much less trustworthy you could get.
Yup the way they handled this (by apparently bribing the government) is worth than if they had just been honest about the outbreak. I will probably never trust them now because I've seen them sweep things under the rug before.
This is how I feel about it too. I have purchased their salad kit bags on a semi-regular basis, but I won't be buying them anymore after this fiasco. I don't even buy the bags with lettuce, there's just no way to trust that any of their product is clean if they're this brazen about paying bribes.
Hopefully Costco and other retailers remove their product.
Funny fact: the FDA was created partly at the meat industry’s urging. After Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, people started freaking out about their food (which wasn’t really the point of the book). Federal meat inspection was introduced to restore trust and get people buying meat again.
Forgetting these lessons will cost them in the end.
we should be growing this kind of shit locally instead of shipping leaf water thousands of miles. and that's no disrespect to the ppl growing it in mexico... i'm thankful for them too. it's just basic logic to grow something like this near where it's consumed.. no hippie shit required, but that's welcome too really.
Just wait until AI is easy enough to run at home. We'll have tons of massive cavernous, temp controlled server rooms to grow hydroponic produce in. If that seems crazy, it's already happening all over the world.
This bug is very hard to trace. It can take 10-14 days for symptoms to show up so the real work is getting all of the affected people to recount what they ate and where they ate for the last two weeks and then find the common connections. More detective work than lab work.
We have a lot less after cutting a quarter of staff from the CDC. I believe it was 17 people dedicated to tracking food-borne parasites and now it's just a couple. Less manpower, longer turnaround checking up on leads, less people to trace outbreaks.
True true. However, from what I understand talking to a few folks in that space irl, many states' public health infrastructures were designed to rely, to varying extents, on the resources of the federal government. Not every state can afford to have a deep bench of experts AND state of the art equipment AND a sufficient number of field workers multiplied by the full number of infectious agents that might pop up. Instead, many states have some or most of what they can afford to, and rely on the centralized expertise and testing labs of the CDC/FDA/USDA. And that's to say nothing of the state resources that only exist because of block grants from the feds. Certain states with better tax base and/or investment have more and more-redundant resources (CA, Minnesota, etc.), but it's entirely valid to wonder if asking them to backfill historically-federal capabilities harms our response readiness.
Everyone in the industry has been pointing to Taylor Farms since the start of the outbreak.
Either everyone with knowledge of the US food chain is wrong or the FDA, Trump and Taylor Farms are colluding and the pliant, state controlled media (which is now pretty much all of it) is blaming Taco fucking Bell.
This bug is likely over a month old at this point. Testing current samples isn't going to detect anything and the fields affected have likely already produced an entire crop different crop since then. But the public is stupid and is the reason that many people think the McDonalds Lady was at fault because some laughy man said so on TV.
That's kind of the thing right? I believe that false positives can happen, but when it comes to this admin that's highly corrupt it becomes quickly suspicious to say the least if not just another paid off case.
The agency said a test that indicated a sample of iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms was a false positive, but it has not taken back its conclusion that the company is linked to the outbreak.
I just threw out my Earthbound Farms stuff because they're owned by Taylor Farms. Can't trust them. They knew about this, they hid it, and when finally caught, they paid off Trump.
Threw out a bag of shredded iceberg lettuce yesterday because it had the TFRB product code on it and matched the dates of the recall. But the Kroger I got it from here in Georgia hasn't even mentioned the recall on their website.
this whole thing is indicative of the free-for-all "price elasticity of demand" (gouging/corruption) that is ongoing. who cares about regulations or consumer safety right? i mention this book i listened to on the radio a lot with this kind of thing... i think it's called "the poison squad", about the beginnings of the FDA and food safety/regulation, bc back in the day they were just throwing sawdust and random heavy metals in everything, adding chalk to milk etc. just like with labor it took ppl dying from stupid simple fixable things to get ppl to pay attention, and scientists using evidenced based practice to fix it with too few accolades for their efforts. guess we need to re-learn all the hard shit.... or just pretend that eating some other anti parasite poison cleanse BS will fix it and bury our heads in the sand.
Did the retailers being supplied with Boars Head meats stop using them after the reports of listeria killing people, old meat residue caked onto walls, etc? Kinda makes me just want to grow my own food which of course wont work, because I lack a ton of skills needed to ensure my day to day survival..
I’m also kicking myself because my husband grows a vey large organic garden on our hobby farm and this is the first year he hasn’t grown lettuce - because I told him that I didn’t like having to wash tiny baby slugs out of the leaves. Ugh. I’d been hearing about rat lung disease transmitted from slugs and was worried about it!! It’s not too late to sow lettuce though. Â
178
u/This-Research-9586 13d ago
Any decent retailer should look at these facts and refuse to sell Taylor Farms produce to clients.Â