Taylor Farms criticized after cyclospora outbreak and slow recall response
Hear me out: this is even wilder than it looks. Out in the ag world, Taylor Farms was THE instigator for a lot of the big food safety moves for lettuce over the last 20 years. That's a legacy that just should NOT have ended up like this.
Sarah Taber343I'm trying to think of how best to describe the level of "Wow! That should not have happened!" that's going on here. It's the diarrhea version of Omar, after a long & rugged career of successfully robbing drug dealers, getting one-shotted by a 6-year-old at the corner store.
public health guy33omg sarah i’ve been talking about how wild this is all day!! they really took the whole regime change thing to heart i guess
Don Gibson22I was really sad to see Taylor Farms in all of this. I saw a talk just last month from a Taylor Farms representative bragging about them having better safety controls then required by law.
One more late 70s Jen* variant4Thank you for sharing your expertise, Sarah!
Gabriel Liston4You're the bee's knees Sarah, thank you for this!
It pays to have friends. Well they pay.
Kevin Riggle9And Boeing were the best in the world at building safe airplanes, bar none. ("If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going.")
Rima I Anabtawi5“I don't think there's really any other way to explain how a company that absolutely knows better, and has done way better handling outbreaks in the past suddenly decided doubling down & disinformation was actually a viable move.” 🧵👇🏼
Jerry Boyle4Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, but it’s a Republican malady
unstuck in time2This is why it matters that we expunge these people from power completely and prosecute them unapologetically and swiftly. Their dipshitery has real world consequences that compounds to harm us all.
Claire2Really great thread. You should follow Sarah Taber if you’re not already!
Food experts say that Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce can give you cyclosporiasis. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and drives around with dead bear cubs in his car says it can cure COVID. For busy eaters, it can be hard to know who to trust.
Eli Friedmann 14Let's all dare RFK jr to gobble up 5 pound of this lettuce. Tell him it will own the libs and turn him into superman. Extra points if he gets trump to join him. And then STAND BACK.
Señor Juanton11Explosive diarrhea is a small price to pay for unleashing the deregulated market by Megan McArdle
Hope🇨🇦8I thought the answer was always ivermectin but what do I know?
David Stone3Can we get cyclosporiasis in a spray bottle? Asking for a photographer friend who will be covering a function at MAL later this month.
Marshall2Just stop eating till RFK moves on. That should help. 😶
notidefix.bsky.social2to be fair.... ....people dying from dysentery are less likely to die from COVID
i've seen at least four ppl posting on IG in the past 24 hrs about "these Taylor Farms salads were on sale at Kroger, and they're actually pretty good!" we are cooked, societally.
Jeremy37I've seen multiple posts from food banks about grocery stores donating an unusual amount of Taylor Farms salads. They get rid of the toxic stuff and write it off as a donation.
Princeton.33[and based on the follower counts, i'm not entirely sure these aren't paid ads]
Jeff14Let Darwin do his good work! 🫤
wokecreature-2025.bsky.social12I liked their Caesar kit. And learning about their pay to play deal with trump is one of the two reasons I won't buy anything from Taylor Farms.
Sarah Huckabee Blutarsky11Kroger has a terrific sale on the Taylor Farms Lettuce & Charmin Bath Tissue Duo Packs right now.
I Have Something 2 Say5People are stupid. After all, look at their president
Gotta go with Taco Bell for dinner at some point this week. Next week, too. Whistleblowing on a corrupt bribefest between Donald Trump and the corporate shitworms at Taylor Farms inspires a certain amount of loyalty.
Mark Dowling12“If you get diarrhea after eating Taco Bell, you will come by it honestly, not because of a dodgy deal by a sneaky president”
Tab Lloyd7. I'll meet you at the KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell Urgent Care. .
Professional Internet Beggar5Babe wake up, the corporate whistleblowing diet plan just dropped.
Just Bob 512Haven't eaten there in years. On my to-do list. There's one nearby.
Opheodrys2The hardworking service employees at these restaurants, already a population that serve dutifully and stoically as punching bags for entitled American shitheads, must be reeling.
dinb2The man Taylor farms killed with raw onion was less than two yrs ago in 2024. They don't care
I think it's pretty funny that Taylor Farms was hoping people thought Taco Bell grew their own lettuce because this hit in multiple states, but didn't hit every Taco Bell. Gotta see which pubs ran the Taco Bell hed. Just like when Starbucks blamed crime for why they closed unionized stores lol
Bill Kuchman9One of the more disappointing parts of all of this is that not a single other purchaser of Taylor Farms lettuce proactively came forward with Taco Bell. Like, Taco Bell isn’t the only one getting their lettuce from them.
karmacat5Stay tuned for Taylor Farms name change or d/b/a.
elda64.bsky.social1Dirty company should have been fined or closed many years ago! This has got to be their 5th time causing an outbreak and hurting people! Those who suffered this latest outbreak should sue them. We all know they are friends with the criminals in the White House so feds are not going to do anything
Sophie's Friends1🤣 The memory of Taylor Farms disgusting MAGA salad will be burned into our working class memories. My only wish is that RFK, Jr., Elmo, and DOGE are stuck in the same toilet together. BTW: RFK, Jr. was last seen swimming in a vat of lettuce and his brain worm was giving instructions. 🐸
The CDC recently updated its cyclosporiasis data. There are now 4,173 confirmed cases, making it the largest US cyclospora outbreak ever. 41 states have reported cases. This is just the tip of the iceberg with states reporting several thousand more cases that are awaiting to be confirmed.
Dustin Du Cane35Tip of the iceberg lettuce you mean
Nose Coloured Glasses8If it's just the tip of the iceberg maybe snip that off before making the salad?
Lisa Diedrich7I see what you did there: tip of the iceberg. 😂
darnold13.bsky.social4I’m in Michigan. Only eating canned, frozen, or cooked. No fresh vegetables until they figure this out.
KC Momkin4There will always be challenges that arise in any presidency, but this type of illness is what those jobs at the CDC were for. We were hiring those people for good reasons. It was not "government efficiency" to fire them. Can we get them back? bsky.app/profile/kc-m...
1622mhb3"Tip of the Iceberg" Saw what you did there...
I will never buy Taylor Farms again… And you better believe I’ll find out what other names it’s sold under.
als15Earthbound Farms is its organic brand.
RFK Brain Worm Jr.10I used to buy those little bowl salads Taylor Farms sells and last year I kept getting sick & was finally able to pinpoint those salads as the culprit. Haven't bought their products since. Really glad I stopped eating Taylor Farms before this current outbreak because that was bad enough.
AlyceMiller8They have the nerve to sell Earthbound organic lettuces!!! Never again.
Olddogandgrump7You'll never know who grows any produce. They will switch the branding and sell into food service companies. Imagine trying to find out at KFC or McDs the farm every ingredient was produced on. That is why you need strong regulations with serious punishment for transgressions. Aka Big Government.
Wendy C-P5Right with ya. I was at Costco last night. People saw the Taylor Farms logo on some sort of produce, we were all talking about the corrupt story. They're done. I'm done too.
LingProf5Tell us all when you have a list pls!
Are … Taco Bell??? … emerging as the whistleblower heroes in this WH corruption with a slack farm grower, Taylor Farms, as to an Explosive Trumporrhea outbreak? Do we all need to go EAT there now?
Matti Price14Yes. One thing these massive chains are good at (and TB seems better than the rest) is deep understanding of the chain of custody that allows very specific ingredient tracing/tracking
Kyleberry9is it cool if i keep treating Baja Blast like blue wine?
H. Chaos9I suppose we should all give Demolition Man another watch to see what else is in store.
Frederick Lane5Shouldn't that now be TACO Bell??
Jessica Day George5More proof that we have slipped into some alternate universe where logic and reason have no place.
Ryan Lohner (he/him)5They did win the Franchise Wars so now they’re every restaurant.
NOW BOYCOTTING TAYLOR FARMS! We WERE regular consumers of Taylor Farms bagged salads. Offenses: 1) Trump supporters 2) Paid to change policy against public health 3) used political capital to avoid responsibility That's more than enough to lose my business!
design3.bsky.social3Will consumers get refunds from Taylor or compensation for lost work time and hospitalization............................. No It never comes back to the actual victims
cam8721.bsky.social1Say goodbye Taylor Farms !
Patty Cornelius Pottery1Someone else posted this. Sharing all I can
A.K.B.1They lost my business when my daughter was hospitalised! We never eat Taco Bell but she had TF bagged lettuce a couple of times and was violently ill.
Tamara1It needs to be about time we make these suck ass companies pay for their bribes, by the consumers taking them down. We have the power to end every corporation that got into bed with Trump thinking they could game the system!
I still have to think that becoming known as the Diarrhea Brand, the company that likes diarrhea and seems to have tried to keep giving customers diarrhea even after public health officials asked them to stop giving people diarrhea, will work out poorly for Taylor Farms no matter who they donate to.
Annie B Kay3Ya their brand is 💩 from this point forward, no matter how they try to weasel out of it. 😂😳😂 Taco Bell was actually fairly proactive and transparent.
brokenelm.wsky.social2They're probably like hmm a stronger regulatory state would have saved us from this mess. Also, had read they tried to suggest the government didn't do enough
NOW can we abolish ICE?1Yeah! Next time I want diarrhea I will absolutely eat some Taylor Farms lettuce but i expect that to be approximately never, so.....
balzac.bsky.social1"Diarrhea Farms" would be a good nickname for the company.
I went to Safeway this morning and they're still selling Taylor Farms explosive diarrhea salad kits
Hexadecimal2They were on the donation table at a senior center...I shit you not, no pun intended
SaraSmirks2taylor says the fda apologized to them. fda should apologize to US!
Lucky LaRue2Looks like I didn’t order enough, maybe.🤬
BarbaraB. I Am Antifa, Resist🖕🐸🖕2Same at Kroger when I was there Monday
derangedme1Relocated to weights loss section though; they wouldn’t miss a marketing opportunity
Dee’s Dog Mom1The kits are from California grown lettuce
“I’ll take my chances with Taylor Farms diarrhea but only if it saves me $2.49” is a really interesting kind of person (probably me ngl)
Thoreau Away6My mom very frequently throws out barely questionable food on the opposite of this theory. “Would I pay X to avoid food poisoning?” is an automatic yes for basically any actually existing food price.
Billy Juggernaut Antifa450% is how much of your weight you’ll lose if you eat it.
Barrista3Whole foods trying out heavily dynamic pricing
Sysfin1I am an absolute sucker for bag salads.... Even now
Beth Unlimited1Can you save enough on the lettuce to offset the medical costs for treating your diarrhea?
Ron Gold 🇨🇦150% off - ‘enjoy today’ regret it in the days to come
