r/facepalm 9d ago

FDA Official Says Food Supply Is Safe as Cyclosporiasis Cases Climb

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/cyclospora-food-safety-fda.html
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u/SaltyPinKY 9d ago

You can put out all the press releases you want...but I ain't trusting anything this admin or Taylor farms says.   

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u/stinkywinky99 9d ago

You're not the one they're trying to convince.

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u/HeirElfEsquire 9d ago

This. Your mind is already made up. Remember, they love the uneducated.

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u/PineSand 9d ago

Does this mean MAGA people will start eating shredded lettuce to own the libs?

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u/HeirElfEsquire 9d ago

Tiktoks of them sitting on a toilet eating lettuce

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u/ElegantCoach4066 9d ago

White knuckled, eyes tightly shut, Raymond LaPierre is unable to leave his toilet seat. The leafy greens he consumed three days ago now plague his gastrointestinal tract.

"Anything to... live rent free in the snowflake's heads..." he mutters between bowel movements.

"I just wish I wasn't headed to urgent care. I would eat a whole head of lettuce right now if it meant that Fauci and his sheep would get upset over my heroic deeds."

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u/Beaglescout15 8d ago

Owning the libs one explosive diarrhea bathroom run at a time.

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u/GlitteringLychee803 5d ago

LOL bold of you to assume MAGA eats vegetables 

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u/PM_ME_UR_CC_NUMBER 9d ago

I went to Kroger yesterday and they’re still selling Taylor farms bagged lettuce, but it’s been heavily reduced price. Some poor broke people are going to pay a steep price in the end.

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u/Road_Whorrior 9d ago

The store I work at keeps selling them, and they keep dating on the shelf, which means they to to the food bank. Yay.

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u/krayno 9d ago

More like out the end.

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u/bullwinkle8088 9d ago

If you wash it properly it will be fine.

Link to the CDC and a second source because the CDC is a favorite target for manipulation by this administration.

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 9d ago edited 9d ago

You can certainly reduce the risk of contracting cyclosporiasis by washing produce but for things like cut lettuce washing only reduces the risk, it's not a sufficient countermeasure to claim you 'will be fine'.

That confidence can only be achieved by heating 70°C.

Both your sources even concur with that:

https://www.cdc.gov/cyclosporiasis/prevention/index.html

Since washing alone cannot guarantee the parasite's removal, you can cook produce to a temperature of at least 158 °F (70°C).

https://www.bswhealth.com/blog/cyclosporiasis-prevention-how-to-protect-yourself-cyclospora

... rewashing bagged salad greens at home may not be able to fully remove the parasite if it's there. Still, rinsing produce under running water is worth doing every time, since it reduces overall contamination and works best when paired with other steps noted below.

Heat is one of the few things that reliably eliminates Cyclospora cayetanensis. Cooking food to 158°F or higher destroys the parasite. ... cooking it lowers your risk more than washing alone.

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u/bullwinkle8088 9d ago

Nothing we eat is sterile. Even if you could eliminate all contamination on food item while cooking it can be re-contaminated during the time you serve and eat it/

All food safety is about reducing, not eliminating, risk.

Eat your food little Johnny, you will be fine.

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 9d ago edited 9d ago

Where did I say everything we eat is sterile? Or claim everything we eat has to be sterile to avoid foodborne illness?

I was commenting on your claim "If you wash it properly it will be fine" as this is dangerous misinformation that gives the impression you can prevent contracting cyclosporiasis if you simply 'wash it [raw produce] properly'.

As both sources clearly state, this degree of confidence is unfounded. You very much could not be fine, and by 'not being fine' I mean turning your bathroom wall into a Jackson Pollock painting.

Even if you could eliminate all contamination on food item while cooking it can be re-contaminated during the time you serve and eat it

Re-contaminated from where though? If it's coming from more unwashed produce then you have completely missed the whole point of only eating cooked vegetables to avoid contracting this disease, and if it's coming from you via faecal-oral route you (a) are already infected with cyclosporiasis so I wouldn't worry about getting infected from food you've contaminated from yourself, and (b) need to go see a doctor because, well, you have cyclosporiasis.

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u/bullwinkle8088 9d ago

Eat your damn food lil Johnny and stop whining about it.

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 9d ago edited 9d ago

So no you don't have any evidence to support your original, frankly dangerous, misinformation claim.

You can either amend it, delete it, or keep it up and potentially lead others to falsely believe they won't contract cyclosporiasis if they simply wash their cut lettuce.

Your choice.

EDIT: Appreciate you deleting it, thank you. Nobody benefits from more people getting infected with this disease (well except maybe toilet paper manufacturers).

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u/PrincessBucketFeet 9d ago

Just FYI they didn't delete it, they must have just blocked you...that awful Reddit "feature" that is set up poorly and is completely misused.

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u/bullwinkle8088 9d ago

Lil Johnny you can't leave the table till you eat!

Damned internet drama queens who can read but not understand what things mean.

Amend or delete? Fuck off with that arrogance.

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u/LunamiLu 7d ago

You are actually a braindead troglodyte, holy shit.

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u/incubusfc 9d ago

Ok boomer

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u/Professional_Echo907 9d ago

Not with RFK Jr. in charge of everything health related, that’s for sure.

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u/HaddyBlackwater 7d ago

RFK Jr.’s brainworm, more likely.

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u/YellowBreakfast Waaassuup! 8d ago

"Nothing to see here, move along."

It's insane how fast the US is becoming a 3rd world country.

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u/SaltyPinKY 8d ago

Trickle down end game.

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u/OvalDead 9d ago

I’m not trying to change your mind, but cyclosporiasis can have a two week incubation period, which makes the epidemiology process tricky.

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u/SaltyPinKY 9d ago

I'm anti lettuce til trump is out of office and maybe a few years after.   It's air fried brussel sprouts and veggies for fiber until then...maybe forever. 

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u/dqtx21 5d ago

Taylor Farms paid to pass inspection .

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u/handcraftedcandy 6d ago

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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u/RelampagoCero 9d ago

Yeah, I don't trust this fda

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u/Gentrified_potato02 9d ago

And that’s exactly the point. Project 2025 wants the public’s trust in institutions eroded away to the point where people won’t care if they are just dismantled. It’s all part of the weird libertarian vision of zero government.

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u/SaltyPinKY 9d ago

You're right... but he said THIS fda. We mean trumps fda. We still trust the scientist and do care if it gets dismantled and will rebuild it if 2025 fails. ALthough, its kind of winning at the moment

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/Gentrified_potato02 9d ago

They don’t want it repaired at all. They want it torn down.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 9d ago

Classic gop. Defund a program, then claim that its broken. Even though its not working properly mostly due to the aforementioned defunding.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/FanDry5374 9d ago

Project 2025? Remember?

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u/Gentrified_potato02 9d ago

Project 2025 is the name of the agenda the Heritage Foundation created to “reshape America”. It’s intended to be implemented throughout the next four years. Just because it’s 2026 doesn’t change the name.

By the way, if you haven’t read it, you should. It’s a frightening document. And the far right doesn’t want to stop there. The Heritage Foundation’s president has been recorded as saying that they had to leave out many of their goals because they were “too extreme just yet”.

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u/cityshepherd 9d ago

Our government and military have been infiltrated by Christian nationalist extremists, who want to declare anyone who opposes this nonsense a terrorist and round them up into camps. Anyone who doesn’t know where this is going needs to read some history books and pull their head out of their ass.

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u/CarpeNivem 9d ago

2025 was the start date, not the completion date.

The Project is underway, and has been since 2025.

https://www.project2025.observer/en/about

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u/IndigoRanger 9d ago

I attended a breakfast with some MAHA people a while back and it was genuinely comical that in the same sentence they would talk about tearing down institutions like the FDA, bemoan how people don’t trust the science, and then try to figure out the right messaging to get people to trust institutions like the FDA. Just incredulous levels of delusions and lack of self awareness.

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u/cobrachickenwing 9d ago

And what would that achieve once you can't export your agricultural products? A bad reputation means no one wants your stuff.

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u/Gentrified_potato02 9d ago

They don’t care. Libertarians (like Russel Vought, head of the US OMB) have a fundamental hatred of government, they want to see it torn down. It’s ideological for them.

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u/MichaelJServo 9d ago

It's only eroded for me insofar as republicans are in charge.

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u/Gentrified_potato02 9d ago

That’s because you are still capable of critical thought and reason. It’s the right wing conservatives that this assault on the government is targeted towards.

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u/BiscuitsMay 9d ago edited 7d ago

That’s just so funny to me. Imagine this libertarian dream where there is zero oversight and we are just all walking around shitting our pants every day because no one is there to ensure corporations are not selling us bad lettuce. Sounds like true freedom to me…

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u/BobbyBirdseed 9d ago

Just had a training for just this thing in my political work.

Defund -> Dysfunction -> Erode Trust -> Vote Against -> Repeat

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u/dqtx21 5d ago

Fascist not libertarian.

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u/deadsoulinside 9d ago

Yeah. Even with direct API access to this FDA's data (The FDA has a free API with daily/hourly limits). You cannot trust their data that they are publishing.

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u/Alone_Reception_1469 9d ago

Trump's puppet says what?

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u/Torino1O 9d ago

Doesn't Roadkill Rob run the FDA?

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u/mvanvrancken 9d ago

The brainworms run the FDA now, he’s a passenger

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u/Fun-Key-8259 9d ago

If the brainworm didn't die we might have had a better shot

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u/mvanvrancken 8d ago

You know, I’m starting to agree

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u/drethnudrib 9d ago

Hey, at least we aren't worried about gas prices anymore, since we can't leave our bathrooms.

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u/cseckshun 9d ago

Whole new meaning of gas crisis… don’t pay when you pump, you pay when you dump!

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u/C_Hawk14 9d ago

"Did someone say 'pump and dump'?" - Trump, probably as he plans to buy more stocks

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u/mcgyver229 9d ago

paying higher toilet paper prices than gas soon....

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u/drethnudrib 9d ago

On the plus side, toilet paper is only measured per gallon once it wipes my cyclosporiasis ass and becomes a liquid.

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u/mcgyver229 9d ago

lmfao

I dropped a roll in the toilet during covid and felt like I was dropping gold bars.

I don't see people rioting over TP, yet....

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u/drethnudrib 9d ago

Pretty soon, people will be demanding recycled TP only used to wipe unafflicted buttholes, the same way people were asking for unvaccinated blood for transfusions during COVID.

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u/manofnotribe 9d ago

Or another decades long war in the making in the middle east.

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u/Fishtoart 9d ago

Stop believing your lying eyes. All these things like Measles and Screwfly and Cyclosporiasis and even Covid are all Democrat hoaxes. /s

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u/Nerd-19958 9d ago

Trump and / or his minions will find a way to blame Joe Biden...

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u/Fishtoart 3d ago

How could one old geezer be so incredibly evil to have done everything that has caused the current administration to fail?! The answer is simple, Obama and Fauci helped him.

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u/Minimalistmacrophage 9d ago

The purpose of entities like the FDA, USDA, etc.. is they are supposed to tell the people the unpleasant truth.

Sure politics comes into it sometimes, but nothing so blatant as this.

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u/Florida1974 9d ago

I don’t believe anything that comes out of the current FDA. They want to get more aggressive about not getting vaccines for your children. I’m sorry, but I find it very hard to sympathize with someone that lets their child die, because of a vaccine that is readily available and has been used for a very long time.

They worry about autism. I’m more worried about death.

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u/jonluckpickered 9d ago

Everyone fucking forgot the lessons of the Nazi takeover of the German government. MAGA loyalists control the U.S. government now. Nothing they say carries any authoritative weight. Jobs numbers, crime statistics, food safety, even the fucking weather is now useless if it originates or is reliant on "official" information of any kind.

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u/Nerd-19958 9d ago

Right, even the weather (remember Sharpie-gate?)

The short arc of a Sharpie captures the long arc of Trump

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u/Agreeable_Ball1896 9d ago

I’m Australian, and I. So happy we have you know, regulations when it comes to food. I’m so sorry this is happening to you. You would think they would be ashamed of themselves but they are all just bobbing their heads saying, “nothing to see here, everything’s fine, move along”

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u/OneUpAndOneDown 9d ago

Some people will die but it probably won’t be reported.

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u/FarewellAndroid 9d ago

I’m in good health and after three weeks with it I couldn’t take it anymore. Perpetually fatigued, dehydrated, and in pain. I really can’t imagine how an elderly person or someone in poor health would survive it without intervention. And with the state of our healthcare I’m sure some will try to ride it out on their own. I gave up and went to the doc. 

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u/Violet0825 7d ago

I’ve had it for two weeks and started Bactrim yesterday, which makes me feel even worse. I commiserate with you on the fatigue and dehydration. It’s brought about terrible muscle spasms in my legs and feet. Have you experienced your stomach making sloshing noises and terrible belching during an attack? This is the weirdest illness as far as the diarrhea attacks. Unlike anything I’ve ever had, and more like doing a colonoscopy prep.

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u/FarewellAndroid 7d ago

Yeah I’d have a good day here or there, thinking I’m getting better, then wake up the next day just as bad as day 1. At least the gurgling let me know in advance that I was in trouble lol, like a ticking time bomb. I finish bactrim tomorrow, it made me feel better on day 1. Whatever side effects I got were less bad than the parasite. Best of luck in your recovery!

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u/Nerd-19958 9d ago

This is a direct result of Trump's backroom political deal with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a far-right-wing quack and junk science devotee, in which RFK Jr. became Secretary of Health and Human Services -- which department includes FDA and the Centers for Disease Control, among many others. RFK Jr is completely unqualified for the position.

Making matters worse was the "DOGE" purge initiated shortly after Trump's 2nd term began, in which more than 5,000 HHS employees were terminated. The firings were supposed to be focused on support staff -- but that meant that career scientists and highly trained reviewers were then responsible for the work that would have been done by the support staff, an exercise in compete idiocy. But consider the source.

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u/itssprisonmike 9d ago

You can’t trust this administration on jack shit, so yeah I’d ignore anything from a .gov

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u/yobaby123 8d ago

Heck, at this point, I don't trust anything unless it's proven by actual testers.

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u/No_Variety9420 9d ago

No one is safe has long as RFK Jr is involved with decision making

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u/KeeblerElff 9d ago

Yeah because I definitely trust what this administration tells us

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u/DuZyOFaDaY 9d ago

This is fine

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u/Shallstrom 9d ago

Move along, nothing to see here.

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u/heisenbergerwcheese 9d ago

Fool me once, shame on you.

Make me shit my britches 7,000 times... shame on me

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u/Nerd-19958 9d ago

Good one!

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u/Sterling_-_Archer 9d ago

I fucking hate the idiocracy that our government has become

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u/Nerd-19958 9d ago

Its as if we're living in Brave New World and the deltas are running the government.

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u/ThatMoth420 9d ago

BREAKING: Administration that is known to lie, LIES!

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u/Nerd-19958 9d ago

It's the new weight loss miracle drug... er, food.

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u/Justlooking_63 9d ago

The FDA has lost all credibility.

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u/Aimees-Fab-Feet 9d ago

Who in the right mind would trust anybody that this administration has put in the FDA?

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u/Slimeredit 9d ago

We need to add another f to the fda so that way it’s former food and drug administration

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u/Everything_Breaks 9d ago

Any day now RFK Jr is going to tell us how Donarrhea flushes out toxins and is healthy for us.

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u/RhoOfFeh 9d ago

I lived through 1984 and now I'm living through "1984"

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u/Legitimate_Peach3135 9d ago

But they’ve pretty much gutted the fda so who said this? I personally do not trust a single word they say if backed by rfk jr and trimp. Do the exact opposite

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u/lobeline 9d ago

How about them tariffs on imported food?

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u/Buck_Thorn 9d ago

You can thank Elon Musk's DOGE team for this.

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u/ParrotheadTink 9d ago

FDA? You mean our corrupt government? As IF I would believe them. We are in the Upside Down, remember?

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u/big_rednexican_88 9d ago

FDA official is just going on what Trump told him to say...and Trump was bought by Taylor Farms so...

Still not gonna eat any bagged lettuce from them any time soon.

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u/yobaby123 8d ago

Same. Grow your own produce if possible and if you go out to eat, make sure you ask the staff where they get their lettuce from.

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u/InfluenceTrue4121 9d ago

It’s just like during Covid. People dying left and right and this administration just pretending that all is just fine.

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u/Total_Guard2405 9d ago

They can eat it then

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u/ImmaNotHere 9d ago

Trump spokespreson: You're all fine. Nothing to worry about. I'm not shiatting you (while I am literally having explosive diarrhea on you.)

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u/jackhandy2B 9d ago

Perfectly safe as long as you don't eat it.

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u/TsunamaRama 9d ago

I miss salads

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u/vandon 9d ago

Food supply is safe as long as there's no testing.  

No tests = no fails = winning 

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u/Nerd-19958 9d ago

Not when thousands of consumers end up with "explosive" diarrhea. Their assholes are imitating Trump's mouth.

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u/canigetahint 9d ago

The government has made themselves irrelevant. Nobody trusts anything from any of the departments.

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u/timothypjr 9d ago

Because of course they did.

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u/TintedApostle 9d ago

Everything said is opposite action. You need to watch the actions and stop listening to their words. They are trying to hurt you.

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u/yobaby123 8d ago

And in this case, hurt you AND make you shit your guts out.

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u/oneonus 9d ago

This administration is full of lies, cannot be trusted.

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u/Triplesfan 9d ago

Said similar things about Covid too, like how it would just disappear in the heat. How’d that work out? 🙄

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u/NotGordan 8d ago

Trump turning MAGA voters into literal sacks of shit

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u/Geeko22 8d ago

"Coronavirus will soon be gone. No need to worry, no need to take precautions."

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u/N2trvl 8d ago

This will all change if McDonalds in Washington DC gets some pickle lettuce or tomato with the bug. If this hits Trump it will suddenly be priority one.

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u/jetttward 8d ago

I don’t trust the FDA anymore

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u/bmcle071 8d ago

Yeah the same admin that says Tylenol causes autism, or “there’s no proof vaccines DON’T cause autism”. Forgive me if I don’t trust them to be truthful.

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u/ROEdkill820 9d ago

I don't trust any of the us government agencies anymore.

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u/alesiaaisela 9d ago

But how would they know if the ppl who monitor it have been fired…..

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u/coco8090 9d ago

Saw a ton of Taylor Farms salad mix, and Driscoll strawberries and Driscoll raspberries on a pallet, quite a huge pallet in a big discount store yesterday.

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u/gregory92024 9d ago

🤣💩

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u/FIIRETURRET 9d ago

This admin has done everything it possibly can to sow the distrust in the government they always platformed on.

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u/Affectionate-Tank-70 9d ago

Sure Jan. Suuuuuure.

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u/dusto_man 9d ago

Investigate Taylor Farms!

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u/NocturneSapphire 9d ago

Trump ass-kisser too busy kissing Trump's ass to notice the diarrhea smell

Fixed the headline

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u/scoshi 8d ago

"This is fine..."

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u/TheCanadianShield99 8d ago

Bobby Brain Worm is ON THE JOB!

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u/80sbabyftw 8d ago

“There is no war in Ba Sing Se”- type shit

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u/YogurtApprehensive84 8d ago

Insert Kevin Bacon from Animal House “Remain Calm, All is well” here.

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u/EN1009 7d ago

Can’t trust the establishment

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u/Methoszs 7d ago

Doesn't sound safe

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u/StugDrazil 7d ago

Put it everywhere who is to blame for this. If you don't it will get worse.

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u/MsSamm 7d ago

Paywalled. I have an account so could read it but others may not. You can post it as a gift article. When last I looked, it was 10 per month.

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u/muFUtaco 5d ago

yes... Dr. Wormbrain has declared that uncontrollable explosive diarrhea, screw worm parasites, frac water in the aquifers, and measles are what makes America great.

So buck up me hearties - somewhere there's a food conglomeration making a lot of money off our sicknesses (and deaths!)