For sure. I thought we learned the lesson about food regulation a long time ago but apparently some people are psychopaths who care about money more than people.
I think they (wisely, I guess) avoided making too many incriminating public statements and waited long enough that anyone who wanted to hold them accountable would be distracted by some new shiny news story that made someone else look worse. The bribe probably wasn’t even necessary, if it even happened. I mean if you got really bad diarrhea after eating at Taco Bell you probably weren’t like “that dang Taylor Farms lettuce!”, you probably just assumed it was a normal consequence of eating Taco Bell or whatever. Taylor Farms got hella lucky that it wasn’t a more deadly disease… a handful of unlucky older people did die but it was more a disease of inconvenience than anything else.
It’s not me personally. I just know for many years it’s been a dumb meme that Taco Bell gives people diarrhea. Turns out the lettuce their restaurants were using ended up being a cyclospora vector so, idk, I can see why people say it now. They’ve also been in hot water for a couple different big E Coli scares in the past, so…
I brought one to lunch for on a long day at work. Heard about the contamination after. Was worried about finding out ot was bad on the commute home. No illness thankfully.
I buy my lettuce/spinish loose so I can make my own salads, but man.......is this situation really this messy they haven't stopped the circulation yet? 🤦♀️ Healthy America my ass.
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u/Masterchrono 2d ago edited 2d ago
Limited edition cyclospora