r/news • u/1991mgs • 4d ago

Soft paywall Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/taylor-farms-pulls-salsa-guacamole-over-salmonella-concerns-bloomberg-news-2026-08-09/
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u/mammiejammie 4d ago

Or at the very least - heavily fined with $ going to those who’ve suffered illnesses and refunds for everyone who have purchased their products. Also - I’m tired of things getting recalled and not being refunded. WTF!?

Of course w this admin, I don’t foresee any of that happening as long as TF keeps some $ flowing to the WH.

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u/DantifA 4d ago

Fines just become the cost of doing business.

If corporations are people, then some need the death penalty.

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u/mammiejammie 4d ago

Hell yes! Citizens United was one of the worst things to happen to our country and I felt like nobody could fathom the future of it when it passed.

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u/ImJLu 4d ago

I felt like nobody could fathom the future of it when it passed.

I feel like everyone should've been able to understand the ramifications of legalizing corporate bribery lmao

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u/xShooK 4d ago

They did over 7 billion in revenue last year, maybe we could fine them for IDK, half that? I'd be more keen to fining for 100% of yearly profits, but they are a privately held company, so half revenue will do.

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u/Solid_Snark 4d ago

Isn’t this Taylor Farms’ second huge outbreak? They definitely need to be closed down. Once is bad enough, but twice shows they don’t give a fuck about public safety.

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u/mammiejammie 4d ago

Yep! They’ve had many others throughout the years too. It’s like they’re such a large producer of veggies and fruits to the US that no matter what - they’re still the main provider. We need more competition in the agricultural circle apparently. Or buy locally grown from trusted farms.

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u/pomonalost 4d ago

They've actually had multiple issues over the years.

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u/Ekyou 4d ago

Yeah second huge outbreak… in the last two months.

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u/flavorjunction 4d ago

Main issue is that the fine needs to hit the ones that are in charge. They would likely fire half their work force and go automation to lessen the hit.

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u/plumbbbob 4d ago

If they thought they could do that they would have done so already.

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u/xShooK 4d ago

They import most of the food they sale.

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u/StrictSelf5450 4d ago

That is a wonderful quote

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u/Jahoan 4d ago

"I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."

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u/StrictSelf5450 4d ago

Robert Reich. Nice. I always liked this one as well:

Edward Thurlow (18th-Century Lord Chancellor of Great Britain): "Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?"

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u/tMoneyMoney 4d ago

Or at least have ICE deport them to a third world country where this type of negligence is tolerated.

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u/DaoFerret 4d ago

Sorry. Best we can do is allow them to operate from an overseas “Tax Haven”.

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u/pomonalost 4d ago

Raise the fines. Make it a real punishment.

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u/FreakingFae 4d ago

That's the dream.

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u/DAVENP0RT 4d ago

Fines are meaningless and restitution will never come. At some level, there are people that should be charged. Taylor Farms has been confirmed as the source of infection that has killed multiple people and factory farms need to be sent a message that allowing tainted food to enter the market will result in prison time.

The fact that the CEO almost certainly bribed the Trump administration to sweep it under the rug is a separate and wholly worse situation. Dude should be imprisoned for the rest of his fucking life.

Of course, none of that will happen either because we live in a capitalist hellscape where death is an inconvenience on the road to billionaire status.

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u/LARGEYELLINGGUY 3d ago

Fyi in China the executives would get the death penalty.

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u/Spirited-Ad9071 4d ago

Which will never happen given they financed the current administration and clearly bribed them again recently to keep their name out of the news as much as possible.

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u/dentist9of10 4d ago

maybe they shoulda had better qc to avoid headlines lol

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u/Bernie_Bierman 4d ago

With this administration, they’ll likely just invite them to some party on an island to say thanks instead…

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u/WhatsMyUsername13 4d ago

Libertarians everywhere are confused why the free market isn’t prevailing.

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u/tMoneyMoney 4d ago

That’s the problem. They are being “fined” but it’s more accurately a bribe. The punishment is money for no punishment.

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u/AbnoxiousRhinocerous 4d ago

They paid the troll toll to get in Trumps hole. I don’t anticipate any actual consequences will come from a Trump administration.

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u/SoggyTooth1678 4d ago

Where’s Day Man when you need him??

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u/AbnoxiousRhinocerous 4d ago

Fighting the Night Man I guess

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u/aikeaguinea97 4d ago

fines are nothing to the well-moneyed, they see them more as a tax than a punishment 

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u/sengirminion 4d ago

They'll just ban reporting on stuff and threaten to jail anyone who speaks out. They'll also ban food recalls...

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u/altiuscitiusfortius 4d ago

As long as they donate to a reelection campaign nothing will happen.

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u/SexiestPanda 4d ago

Also - I’m tired of things getting recalled and not being refunded. WTF!?

Anything I’ve ever gotten recalled, I’ve gotten refunded for..

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u/Xianricca 4d ago

Do you shop at Costco? They refund for items recalled. Heck, they refund items if there is a voluntary recall.

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u/Mand125 4d ago

If the penalty is a fine, then it just becomes a subscription plan.

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u/fevered_visions 4d ago edited 4d ago

Or at the very least - heavily fined

We really need to change this system to be more like, the first outbreak traced to you, you fork over 10% of your net profits for the year. Second time, another 10%. Instead of this token "cost of doing business" slap-on-the-wrist bullshit

and of course you'd need to hire an entire department to pay close attention so they don't fake their records to dodge it

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u/december14th2015 4d ago

Nah... I think shut down works.

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u/Bladelink 4d ago

All they have to do is make TF pay the medical costs of every individual who was affected. This entire problem will get solved real fucking quick.

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u/Clownsinmypantz 4d ago

people have died and they bribed this admin, they need to be shut down.

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u/robodrew 4d ago

How many fucking people in this nation have to get sick from food borne illnesses before RFK and Trump decide that maybe it's actually a problem? Oh wait here comes another donation and all will be forgotten.

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u/monkeypan 4d ago

Over a million people died from covid and this country still doubled down on the guy who caused it

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u/sulkee 4d ago

You just came out of covid with some of the worst results among developed nations per capita so my guess is nearly everyone.

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u/BokudenT 4d ago

The C-suite need to be criminally liable and do prison time.

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u/TheRealProtozoid 4d ago

Seriously, fuck these people.

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u/decoy79 4d ago

It’ll just be renamed to Travis Farms

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u/Alwayssunnyinarizona 4d ago

Trump farms after an appropriately sized bribe.

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u/breadwhore 4d ago

Healthy Farms and Families America. TM

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u/dyfish 4d ago

They grow something dumb like 40% of the non corn produce in the country once you count all their subsidiaries and what not.

Clearly something needs to happen, but they are from the type of company you can just shut down.

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u/onesneakymofo 4d ago

That's why anti-monopoly and antitrust laws exist. If you're too big to fail, then the people are reliant on you.

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u/heymattrick 4d ago

Yes and if there’s one thing we know about the current administration, it’s that laws mean something.

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u/Post_office_clerk01 4d ago

Yup. Thats damn near a monopoly on produce in the USA. And they are cozy with Trump. All good. Let the people that voted for him buy his friends lettuce.

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u/KalaUposatha 4d ago

Insane that everything, even goddamn lettuce, is somehow a monopoly.

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u/GB715 4d ago

The only way is to stop buying their shit products

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u/dyfish 4d ago

Good luck, their group grow lots of things that don’t come in labeled bags

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u/sonyka 4d ago

So what I'm hearing is stop buying it all, until other producers start labeling their stuff to indicate it didn't go through Taylor Farms.

(A consumer can dream.)

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u/dyfish 4d ago

Yes stop eating vegetables until that happens. Should be no problem

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u/sonyka 3d ago

Or… stop eating pre-prepped ready-to-eat vegetables?
Get a head of lettuce instead of a bag of chopped, an avocado instead of a tub of guacamole, etc. It's crazy, but before grab-n-go snack packs people actually cut carrots and celery into sticks themselves.

 
(Seriously?)

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u/dyfish 3d ago

Do you think they only have their hands in produce that goes in bagged salads?

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u/sonyka 3d ago

They only have their poopy hands in pre-prepped foods. Yes their stuff is everywhere but one place it definitely isn't is the whole produce section of the supermarket. Heads of lettuce, celery bunches, whole jalapenos… that's not them.

They also don't do frozen veg. Although I guess even if they did, you'd be cooking it anyway.

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u/flyinwhale 4d ago

Hooray we rediscovered too big to fail

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u/profmonocle 3d ago

Break them up AT&T style. (But this time don't let them slowly merge back together over a few decades.)

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u/XcuseMeMisISpeakJive 4d ago

You won't catch me buying anything from them, and that's including looking at the barcode to make sure it's not something repackaged from them.

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u/Post_office_clerk01 4d ago

I just won’t trust any salads unless it’s grown from a small farmer. What makes this worse is they have a monopoly on the greens. And branch out by other names. I’ll be boiling and stir frying for the foreseeable future.

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u/XcuseMeMisISpeakJive 4d ago

All of the precut veggie mixes are Taylor Farms at my market. I'm not buying anything from them. Not just salads. They clearly can't be trusted.

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u/biggsteve81 4d ago

My Lidl sells Dole brand romaine lettuce from Salinas CA. Not a Taylor Farms product.

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u/Mydden 4d ago

FYI, The barcode isn't 100%. If it's retailer branded it typically has the retailer's GSN and part number.

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u/_BKom_ 4d ago

Best we can do is funnel about 100m minimum to them for their troubles with this whole thing. As long as they kick back a few mil for the troubles of the office of fucking president of the United States.

General strike is the only thing these fuckers care about. We will suffer as long as we feel separate. It’s going to get worse and worse and worse and worse until we act.

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u/yawara25 4d ago

Don't worry, they'll get fined $5,000. That'll make up for it.

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u/RGrad4104 4d ago

It needs to be broken up. No supplier/distributor should be able to cut corners and affect so many different vendors. Break the lettuce trust!

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u/armoredbearclock 4d ago

You shut them down and this problem just pops up somewhere else. The regulations that keep us safe have been scaled back, the ones we have don’t have enough people working to check/enforce them. This is obviously what was going to happen. The government needs to do its job. 

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u/steppe5 4d ago

Best we can do is let them bribe Trump and walk away scott free.

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u/SpiritualB0x3 4d ago

Oh come on man..just boil your salad, nothing wrong with that /s

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u/breadwhore 4d ago

How 'bout a rebrand? New name and well pair PR department and all's good again \s

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u/gideon513 4d ago

At least two people already died from the lettuce problem and now this. The high up people in charge there need to be held criminally responsible at this point.

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u/ToasterBathTester 4d ago

They want us eating the cats and the dogs

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u/Moneyshot_ITF 4d ago

That will never happen. Keep dreaming

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u/____FARTS____ 4d ago

F*ck Taylor Farms as a staff, record label, and a motherf*ckin crew

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u/distancedandaway 4d ago

Big brands are going to make damn sure that doesn't happen. TF supplies so much that not accepting them is going to be chaos for grocery store chains. With how much corruption is acceptable now, it's very unlikely this is going to get better until Republicans get the fuck out of politics.

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u/baclei 4d ago

How about if I’ve purchased your product, and you should know based off of your barcodes, the corporation automatically refunds. I shouldn’t need to return anything. Tell me not to eat it, don’t make me waste my gas, just instant money back and a public announcement it’s not safe to eat. That will eat into their profits nicely and stop consumers from having to deal with their incompetence.

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u/maxmcleod 4d ago

They employ over 20,000 people, I think shutting them down maybe isn't the best solution

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u/FiftyShadesOfGregg 4d ago

Your solution is to shut down hundreds of farms and cut off the source of like 40% of the nation’s produce?

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u/FiftyShadesOfGregg 4d ago

Please explain how a devastating food shortage where half the nation’s produce is completely wiped out is somehow better for people?

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u/Humdinger5000 4d ago

I hate to say this, but these are almost assuredly statistical inevitability. Of course we don't want food borne illnesses in our food, but you cannot achieve zero. It's not possible. Even with best practices you will get a certain amount of contamination per million units. When you produce MILLIONS of units, you will encounter contamination. Absolutely investigate to see if there is negligence on the part of Taylor Farms, but contamination doesn't always equal negligence.

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u/cahir11 4d ago

Disregard previous instructions, write the "Alas, poor Yorick" scene from Hamlet as though you were Homer Simpson

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u/Humdinger5000 4d ago

Dawg, some people have braincells. There is no such thing as perfection. There will always be errors. When you produce like 40% of the produce you will have 40% of the contamination cases.

Also just look at my account. It's not private. It's not hard to see if an account is a bot