Taylor Farms expands iceberg lettuce recall to 27 states
Taco Bell does not grow lettuce. This is on Taylor Farms.
Michael J. Stern44Taylor Farms "grows food in more than a dozen states, as well as in Mexico and Canada, and has 30 processing facilities and 25,000 employees." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/b...
Louise16At 82 and withwith bad knees I don't like standing at a kitchen counter prepping. I've been buying Taylor farms for 5 yrs. I did not know they had deep connections to the #Republican party & #Trump. I was sick last night. Threw two bags of Taylor farms out this a.m. . I can't afford to do that.
The “Original” Me132013, blast from the past…Same company, same region, same outbreak. Their founder and CEO is a trumper! Profits over people! Hard Pass Taylor Farms anything! #BoycottTaylorFarms
Valerie Cartwright8Also, our USDA has been gutted. Nothing is safe until we excize this evil regime and restore safety inspections and oversite.
Hawkeye Pete7I would wager part of this problem is a lack of handwashing stations for workers, both in the field and in processing facilities. Typical of cheap poorly run companies that see handwashing as cutting into production.
praying mantis6www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF5Y... While we’ve learned new info since this interview, it’s worth a watch. Tenacious & resourceful man traced his infection back to a working lunch at a different restaurant in NYC in May. Info on what Sx are like, & despite anchors’ efforts, he brings it back to Fed Gov
😈 Leela The Monster 🧛♀️14This is on Taylor Farms, and Taco Bell should get a fucking award for figuring it out before the fucking CDC did! 🤬
our lady of the cow parsley4A reminder that salad greens are not terribly hard to grow. It could save your life.
Moments pass, start or continue your winning streak!4I don't mean to defend Taco Bell, since Taco Time is the best, Taylor Farms gives to MAGA, no wonder Taco Bell is the scapegoat. Follow the money.
𝕷𝖚𝓴𝖆♔3This is on defunding and deregulating the FDA thx pres.
K a s s i e D e e2This brand is also sold in Canadian grocery stores. Check your labels and buy local.
MsRegiGirl2GOP stance on regulations - Government regulations are uncalled obstacles into the privacy & freedoms of our private citizens & hinder the expansion of Corporations & Small businesses. Hmmmmm——except when those people are dead…
Given the lack of details provided by Taylor Farms thus far, Consumer Reports' food safety experts are advising folks in the 27 states implicated by the recall to discard ALL iceberg lettuce until we know more about where the parasite-linked products ended up www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
paris martineau401One of the things that I'm ruminating on is: Yesterday, Taylor Farms said "No Taylor Farms-branded salads or kits" were linked to the outbreak. But today, that note is gone and some of the recalled products are listed under the brand acronym "TF" Is "TF" Taylor Farms? I'd sure love to know!
Mrs. N22Struggling with NY not being on this list and yet having some of the largest clusters of cases. I can't think of any explanation that doesn't end in avoiding TF products in NY too.
Guoldu 🤡 Team Comedy18Reminder that its not able to be passed to chickens and birds so use it as feed!
Amy Hoy18always feels good to see what my CR subscription goes to even tho i'm not shopping for any appliances any time soon!!
Dedanna12You might want to add Colorado to the list. We have a Taylor Farms facility here in Colorado Springs, and it's actually scaring the crap out of me and others here, since we DON'T have the facts we should about this, and everyone from RFKJr on up and down is saying nothing.
pr0t07Good Lord. Glad I haven't gotten into my bagged salad from Costco
Kasey Gifford634I just want to remind everyone this is happening because Trump cut funds for the CDC program that tracks food contamination outbreaks(and the screw worm problem we still have) so they dont spread. It not only didnt help the cost of living crisis its actively harming people. Dont let MAGA forget this
EmperorTigerstar24I now feel so vindicated for always ordering my burgers or tacos without lettuce. Being a picky eater has saved me!
Patrick Fenelon15Once again, Minnesota is on the front line against this administration
bmaz15So, it is not Taco Bell, but instead the Trumpy Taylor Farms and pernicious Secretary of Diarrhea, RFK Jr. Good to know.
The Deceitful Grin of Civility12We must study West Virginia for their immunities
still mambo (Team Comedy)10-sees my state- hahaha im in danger
Naughty Nox6I will continue to side-eye all vegetables, salads, and also deli meats.
Evan Thomas 👹 Commissions Open!5Las Plagas from Resident Evil 4 could only dream of accomplishing what lettuce is doing to half the nation right now.
ビビ｜비비｜Vivi ΘΔ 🏳️⚧️4I am willing to bet this is Trump's fault with the whole loosening restrictions on many things like food safety. Also, man, it sucks wanting to eat healthier and you get hit with this stupid shit. >w>;
nel gosh4ok whew so my explosive diarrhea is unrelated
They kept distributing it until Thursday. So we've still 2 weeks of poss. new cases. "The shredded iceberg product was distributed June 29th thru July 16th in AL, AR, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WI." www.taylorfarms.com/recall/
Melody Schreiber68I would add: the shredded iceberg has been confirmed. But other products at the same facility could also be infected.
Gregg Gonsalves21Remember, Taylor Farms were implicated in another cyclospora outbreak and two E.coli outbreaks previously.
Izzie2They need to be held liable like Whoa.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE74sweet, i don’t need to worry about the lettuce that i forgot i bought last week
Costa Samaras30in the summer of our bowel’s lament
Dominique Baker24This is not the point but... you're telling me somehow Delaware was exempt?
ISO 3104 viscosity standard5They were STILL SHIPPING this tainted lettuce on THURSDAY. TWO DAYS AGO.
Dana Houle5My wife & I got Taco Bell in SC on the 30th. My wife got it in Indiana on the 10th. Other than Culver’s, or a few times at Five Guys, those are the only two times I’ve seen her eat fast food.
I did a bit of very minor digging and Taylor Farms also sells under the brands Earthbound Farm and Eat Smart. In addition to Taco Bell they also supply to Chipotle, McDonald's, Olive Garden, and Red Lobster. Are these compromised? Who fucking knows 🤷🏻♀️ but better safe than sorry.
Erin Biba102It’s true. They have been involved in a series of worker protests and product recalls over the years bsky.app/profile/danc...
Claire Willett100feels like among other things this should be a lesson to the government (which it won’t, of course) about why breaking up monopolies and limiting the size one company can be was a good thing for NUMEROUS reasons. it’s very bad that one company controls all our access to salad greens!!!!
Micah38been avoiding lettuce on my chipotle burrito bowls until this is all resolved, which sucks, but I do not want diarrhea for a month
Lissa4809They also supply Sprouts deli salads, and knowing that makes me wonder on other grocers deli made salads.
Be Jay, Do Crimes.8Also Costco bagged salad kits.
feminazghul.bsky.social7Thanks for this. Guess who recently bought some Earthbound Farm lettuce? 🥬🙃🥬
Great LakesQ59And Earthbound is sold at food coops & Whole Foods & higher end shops
Will5They also use wastewater sludge fertilizer on their crops
Brooke (joymounds and spoonbait)4Excellent news to read 20 minutes after eating a fistful of the Costco earthbound farms power greens 💀
Truekook⁷ ⊙⊝⊜4Good info here and in the comments so pass it along!
GEK!3You all laugh when I order my burgers plain! WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?
Adam Miller3If only someone had the job of knowing and telling us…
Pentti Kaski2would be cool if you had a functional government that was able / wanted to track down these things so people wouldn't need to. businesses are secretive and understandably don't want to reveal who they might have sent their tainted products to
Taco Bell was pulling lettuce (& other produce) off its menu as of July 7, according to this Michigan radio station. But the recall announcement from Taylor Farms, which is a Taco Bell supplier, is dated July 17. Relatedly, RFK Jr is the nation's top health official www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio...
Bill Grueskin101This isn't a slam on Taco Bell. Just the opposite. It looks like the company was mindful of the public-health issue here. bsky.app/profile/sara...
Kim15And guess who helped hide Taylor Farms
8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade1I guess you could say RFK Jr is a shitty HHS Secretary.
🇨🇦🦋Cranky Canuck🦋🇨🇦1And Trump wonders why the world is shunning American grown food. Smh!
Drudner1Taylor Farms is really racking up the number of their tainted products and recalls as of late. I steer clear of their products and have for over a year.
Barbara Rybolt 🐸14#ProudBlue #Defend #Recall 🧵on Taco Bell and Taylor Farms. I realize outbreaks happen frequently, but cuts to CDC personnel & food safety rules didn’t help find the source of the outbreak. Cheers to Taco Bell for pulling produce off its menu as of July 7. The recall came from Taylor Farms July 17.
Blobert v3.02Taylor Farms proving once again that businesses will not “police themselves”
Blame doth go to Taylor Farms, not Taco Bell www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
Greg in Atlanta2My understanding is government testing of our food supply has dwindled to less than 50% of where it has historically been so Trump can take credit for this as well
russ2seems to me the taco bell info was just run of the mill racist shit america does that everyone just puts up with.
ruidh1If it was sent to Sysco, it is EVERYWHERE.
Bruce Taylor, of Taylor Farms. The man who makes huge contributions to Trump so his lettuce is never inspected. So far, this man has given us E. coli, and cyclospora. He does NOT allow his lettuce pickers to take bathroom breaks..
stevewarren209.bsky.social13If the "free market" truly worked as advertised, this douchebag would be bankrupt by the end of business on Monday over this. Unfortunately ...
Punko Wokester9Motherfucker owes Taco Bell an apology
IdiocracyIsTrue7That's why the media message blames Taco Bell
goldengirl1204.bsky.social7What a piece of explosive diarrhea! So how does he get away with not being inspected!? We should all commit to boycotting Taylor Farms! I’m still boycotting Goya!!
Corruption sickens the country and your bowels. Seriously, anti corruption efforts and policies are great ideas if you don't want to have to deal with explosive diarrhea.
stephthethird.bsky.social6TF has used prison slave labour in the past, too. They claim to have stopped. He's a real piece of work. apnews.com/article/pris...
Hippo18So this is the asshole responsible for the diarrhea lettuce. Big surprise that he's a Trump humper. 🖕
Jose Manuel Redondo López17Preparémonos cuando llegue la "desregulación" a España
ltwlauren🤸♀️❤️🎶🎨🐾12This MAGA’s lettuce is never inspected!! Felon47 and Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, need a hearty lettuce meal — then throw their asses in jail.
Reality Ausetkmt11I think he needs to get his ass out there in the fields and understand exactly what the people who pick the lettuce deal with on a daily basis especially when they need to stop and take a bathroom break. If he doesn't understand that then he shouldn't be allowed to be in charge of shit, anywhere
Caleb 💙9Wow! I didn’t know this but I’m not surprised
Linda G2I will never buy Taylor Farm products again. He’s in a cult.
Taylor Farms is based in CA and yet CA isn't listed on the 27 states affected and they are all over the grocery stores here. Very interesting stuff about the food supplier chain and where the contamination could've occurred. I'm gonna learn a lot I think
Sarah Taber41Yeah that's bc the lettuce that we think caused it, came from 1 farm in Mexico. And California already grows more lettuce than it needs. So there's no reason to ship MORE lettuce to California. It's kinda like asking why Alaska only ships ice to places that aren't Alaska 🤷♀️
Josephus Brown11just cause they're based in cali doesn't mean all their farms are i know there were a bunch of laws passed in CA about, like, farm workers needing to have access to bathrooms and water to wash their hands with, so i imagine there's separate production lines for some of this
Elmo Hugenberg5Taylor is more than anything a packaging company. They buy lettuce and other ingredients from many farms. Their scope also means they have huge risk exposure. Having been to two of theirs and many other lettuce packing houses, they do better than others I’ve been to. It’s a complex problem.
Bote Man3You might find her account enlightening and maddening: bsky.app/profile/sara...
🥖 fresh hot faguette 🥖 {7.4 spoilers}2yeah. last night i pointed out to my partner that a huge number of outbreaks were occurring in a food desert where a lot of folks rely on affordably-priced fast food just to get by and he just kinda stopped dead in his tracks.
Melanie Mallon1Minnesota is also not on the list, which I thought might have to do with our food safety laws. Someone commented that the western distributor probably sources from different farms, which makes sense.
Trump really does own the "vomiting, cramping and explosive diarrhea": "On Thursday evening, Taylor Farms executives met with the White House and FDA to try to distance the company from the outbreak and air concerns about the official investigations into the outbreak"
Steve in Manhattan16apparently Taylor is a huge Trump/MAGA donor. Quelle surprise!
Janice NJ 🌈 🕊️13Will be a long before I knowingly purchase & consume anything produced by this company. Problem is that the GOP (mostly) has watered down antitrust laws so much that something like 1/3 of all salads eaten in North America are produced by Taylor Farms. Could easily be served it at any restaurant.
Hudsonette3At a time when we need more regulations from food to AI, this administration just says: “May the odds be ever in your favor.”
Nothin’ but Blue Skies from now on2Brainstorming went like: “Can we blame Biden for this? DEI? Woke? Pool Vandals? “ “Yes, all of them”
Darwin Woodka1Dude's a big contributor to Trump's campaigns
Helen Kennedy131How much do we think they gave Trump not to come down on them?
Jim Manley52They met with the wh? Oh boy
En Buen Ora12In the Republican era of safety regulation, the rule is 'it's up to you to avoid exposing yourself to disease from companies who don't have to tell you if you're buying exploding diarrhea food, presumably by sheer luck or magic".
Murshed Zaheed12This is all on him. His shitshow.
April11Well, that's a boycott for me
YesBiscuit3"On Thursday evening, Taylor Farms executives met with the White House and FDA to try to distance the company from the outbreak..." You know what else Taylor Farms was doing on Thursday? Selling the goddamn contaminated lettuce! All these people need to go to jail.🚨
Kind of funny that the most recent post from Taylor Farms on Threads is them jokingly apologizing to parents and making a 6-7 joke
Ian Miles Schlong11I want to know who out there is like “yes, let me follow the salad bag company on Instagram”
Alan Fisher5Why was six afraid of seven? Because seven gave eight horrible diarrhea.
If you didn't vote Dem, you voted for this.4So is the explosive diarrhea fatality rate something like 6-7%?
octocryptid 🜬4I want my kids to eat more salad *one finger of the monkey's paw curls*
alexlessis2no wonder it's giving everybody the shits we let the dang AI slop machine create the recipe
As I said, Taylor Farms ships to a lot more than Taco Bell, it's just Taco Bell had the supply chain monitoring required to catch it earlier than other food providers.
SweGringo3I mean, they have to be able to separate the supplier diarrhea from their own creations 😉 Joking obviously, it's great they take food safety seriously.
jclaudia1.bsky.social2Great to know this. Thank you
🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power1Taylor Farms being shady posting their recall notice on a Friday night.
Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened people across the U.S. https://to.pbs.org/4faAsx6
WorseThanItSeems9Why doesn't your story mention the fact that fhe owner of Taylor Farms is a Christian Nationalist and big Trump supporter and that company representatives met with Trump admin officials after the outbreak started?
oberon9.bsky.social5Good on Taco Bell for making the connection before our government did.
exreddituser.bsky.social3Too late. The damage to Taco Bell will be horrific as news agencies placed the blame on them opposed to their supplier..Taylor Farms.
pandamoniumpadthai.bsky.social2This is what happens when you have an underfunded / understaffed CDC. So much winning.
How You Like Me Now?...1#TDS #Cyclosporiasis #Diarrhea #ExplosiveDiarrhea #Bug #Bugs #Parasite #Parasites #FDA #CDC #FDA/CDC “Cyclosporiasis Foodborne Infection” is long, complicated, and nonspecific. How about we rename the disease for the cause and identify it as Trump Diarrhea Syndrome, or TDS for short...
Brittany Beckman1Looks like I'll be laying off Taylor Farms Ceasar Salad for a while. 🥗🤷♀️