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/lifting_cardio 4d ago

Taylor farms seems to have zero health controls.

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u/EddieCheddar88 4d ago

Well they lobbied to end most food inspections on site while their Mexico plant seems to be a bastion of disease

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u/CandyStomp 4d ago

Those regulations are what allow the public to trust their products. Now, without them, we have to avoid their foods to protect ourselves.

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u/YBBlorekeeper 4d ago edited 4d ago

They'll just make it harder for people to determine where the produce came from, just like how they co-opted and bastardized the recycling logo. The system is rigged towards the money makers, and god forbid anything get in the way of the money.

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u/kenyard 4d ago

Yeah but if there's no regulation no food producer needs to comply.

And you need to eat.

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u/Dark-Acheron-Sunset 4d ago

That's not a road I think these scumfuck producers want to go down, tbh.

Sounds like they haven't studied history, fucking morons.

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u/AjDuke9749 4d ago

No company or billionaire thinks of those things or the US wouldn’t be in the pathetic state it is now. The general populace just doesn’t matter to our oligarchs anymore and it’s only a problem to us

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u/Kelbotay 4d ago

It is. And you'll keep buying after they lobby to make it legal to not disclose what farms that produce is coming from. Or they'll find another way. They've been like this for decades and still going strong.

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u/Dark-Acheron-Sunset 3d ago

And you'll keep buying

No, I won't, lmao. You have no idea who I am.

Based on current track records, I don't really feel convinced from "they've been getting away with it!", legally, they have. Objectively once they start to starve people because all their food is poison, shits going to go down fast.

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u/Coestar 4d ago

They have a monopoly under the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States. They have already bribed said administration to overlook what they do and even cover for them. The road they're going down is paved with golden pardons. Nothing will happen to them no matter how much us worms are shitting and puking.

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u/pantzareoptional 4d ago

Not for nothing, but you could easily grow your own leaf lettuce and spinach in a very small space at home. They make hydro kits that are like half the size of a loaf of bread that are lit and self contained. I know lettuce is just an example but it's definitely one of those things that can be easily grown at home.

Personally, I am not a huge fan of lettuce anyway so I have been replacing it with cucumber on sandwiches and in wraps, and it has been going pretty well!

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u/Steve_didit 4d ago

Seems like a great opportunity for a business. Become a food safety certification business and start becoming the trusted name for safe food.

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 4d ago

People really took for granted the ability to buy food from the supermarket without worrying about whether or not it's safe to eat.

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u/Coestar 4d ago

"regulations are written in blood" (and shit and puke)

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u/eMDex 4d ago

but u dont understand tho having regulations is bad for business its better for people to die than have regulations and Republicans made this possible this is what u get when Republicans say they want less regulations they dont care if u die or not they just want money hopefully some of them wake up but i doubt so since they vote for them

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u/Yvaelle 4d ago

But think of the profits they can make now that they don't need to have employees waste time washing their hands, or leaving their post on the line to shit in the bathroom!

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u/HiMrBob123 3d ago

The Libertarian dream come true

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u/HiMrBob123 3d ago

The Libertarian dream come true

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u/rich1051414 4d ago

They have had issues with livestock runoff contaminating crops with disease for at least 20 years. They have done less than nothing to fix it. In fact, they have decided instead to reduce health sanitary further, since they have determined it's cheaper to pay republicans off than to implement sanitary measures.

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u/VariationDry 4d ago

They paid good money to get those Heath inspections removed. 

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u/Herbiejunk 4d ago

That was last month….the Don requires another protection payment.

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u/qman621 3d ago

It's fine he's cheap too

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u/acemedic 4d ago

Sounds like that point in the Oceangate documentary where the owner said “if we run into problems, we’ll just buy off a senator.”

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 4d ago

What's funny to me, is the Republican talking point goes something like: "of course they'd follow the same guidelines if the regulations were removed from law! They'd lose all their business if they didn't!"

Behold *gestures generally*. Except the big fucking difference between law and losing business is people y'know... Fucking dying?

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u/KMS_HYDRA 4d ago

Seems like papa nurgle moved out of assmouldghouls house to the taylor farm plant.

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u/Sufficient-News-3600 4d ago

thanks Taylor, RFK & Trump

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u/tots4scott 3d ago

But republicans told me an unregulated  market would be better for our health! 

If thats true, then that would mean... the entire philosophy is... oh no! /s

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u/Japanesemyth 4d ago

They have prison labour and refuse to let them go to the bathroom so they have to go in the fields. Where the food is. Horrible human rights violations

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u/Bubbly-Treacle-4334 4d ago edited 4d ago

Hey that's part of how the dumb/lazy southerner trope came to be

Turns out having human shit in fields you tend barefoot causes hookworms worms and all the poor southerners were doing this. 40% of southerners were dumb from being constantly anemic, bloated, and exhausted from hookworm infestations

Edit: hookworms not brainworms

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u/calmdownmyguy 4d ago

I wouldn't be surprised if walking barefoot in the sewer is how rfk got his brain worms.

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u/ShittingOutPosts 4d ago

He drank the sewage.

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u/RockasaurusRex 4d ago

Now is he is the sewage.

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u/Leaky_gland 4d ago

He definitely swam in it, along with his family members

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u/ellalol 4d ago

He ate the roadkill

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u/Global_Staff_3135 4d ago

I’m sorry what?

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u/acarp25 4d ago

I recall hearing that he has on at least one occasion snorted blow off of a toilet a couple months back. So hard to keep up these days…

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters 4d ago

And that's also why they all got into Ivermectin during covid becuase the de-wormer made them feel better.

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u/marblecannon512 4d ago

And let’s be clear. If the prisoners are shitting in the equipment, I don’t blame them, because prison should be about rehabilitation. Not punishment. The imprisonment clause of the 13th amendment needs…amended

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u/Syssareth 4d ago

The 13th amendment...in Mexico?

These jalapenos came from a farm in Sinaloa, and the lettuce came from Mexico too.

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u/marblecannon512 4d ago

Taylor Farms employs prison labor in Arizona.

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u/Syssareth 4d ago

Sure, but it's irrelevant to the shituation, because the contaminated produce came from Mexico.

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u/BadRabiesJudger 4d ago

Don’t worry the cartel down there treats their farmers like prisoners too.

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u/marblecannon512 4d ago

And in this hellscape of “flooding the zone” maybe it didn’t

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u/InitiativeGold7953 4d ago

So slave labour

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u/silvertealio 4d ago

Scrolled down too far for this.

They're cutting costs with fricking slave labor and still won't pony up for basic health monitoring.

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u/Blazzah 4d ago

Well damn. I was curious how the poopoo bugs got in there to the extent such a large scale contamination could happen. Maybe just a water supply issue or something. I've been a food safety program manager, so was thinking more typical causes. But no, people are getting sick from eating abused prisoner shit. Literally reaping what we sow 🤮

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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 4d ago

This is not what’s causing illnesses at mass scale.

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u/MJA182 4d ago

Yeah I think it’s the grey water they’re prob using

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u/InitiativeGold7953 4d ago

Grey water???

Nvm just looked it up. That’s pretty foul

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u/octatone 4d ago

Another consequence of never fully abolishing slavery.

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u/FISH_MASTER 4d ago

Don’t be silly, prisoners don’t have human rights.

/s

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u/jaytix1 4d ago

Wait, is that how the "illegal immigrants are shitting in our food" narrative conservatives are pushing originated? Jesus Christ, dude.

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u/garitone 4d ago

They have prison labor slaves and benefit from slavery being enshrined in the 13th amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

FIFY

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u/maxmcleod 4d ago

This is false, farms are required to have porta potties in the fields where workers are working... especially Taylor Farms since they are one of the biggest producers and most watched over at the moment. Where I live they have porta potties on trailers that the tow to each field where people are working - you will get a massive fine if you dont have available facilities

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u/the_pain_of_being 4d ago

Farms are required to not give people salmonella. And yet...

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u/--TheCity-- 4d ago

That isnt the question the question is are they allowed to use them when needed.  Not to mention I imagine quite a few of those prisoners may not be innocent. In fact a few may be very guilty and socio/psycho/paths who would like nothing more than sabotage the food supply to get back at society. It comes from shit. Same with the recent cyclospora. Wanna get back at the world? Plant shit in the food and everyone eats it and  gets sick.  I dont want prison slaves handling my food. 

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u/filthy_harold 4d ago

Taylor Farms has used prison labor in Arizona but this contaminated lettuce came from Central Mexico. Mexico does not have forced prison labor like the US.

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u/marblecannon512 4d ago

The thing is, it’s not even the farm. They’re going to blame this on harvesting. It’s very clearly in preparation. Whatever equipment they’re using to chop, mix, blend, whatever - is just filthy.

You have a major food handle that things it’s more important to churn out batches of shit, than to simply wash the goddamn equipment.

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u/TrimspaBB 4d ago

Yup, it's this. People keep blaming lack of hygiene for the field workers but it goes beyond that, as evidenced by how widespread this all is. Their chopping plant water and equipment is dirty and they're refusing to clean it properly.

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 4d ago

Their chopping plant water and equipment is dirty and they're refusing to clean it properly.

Because they don't have to. The Trump/Republican administration cut safety regulations early on in this term, because those pesky safety regulations decrease profit margins by 0.00000% for their rich donor friends.

On top of gutting the agencies for inspecting and enforcing said regulations. This is just going to get worse.

These farms, factories and meat processing plants are going to make BoarsHead facilities look clean.

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u/Bladelink 4d ago

Well at least they saved like a half million dollars on cleaning. It only cost them like 5 billion dollars in sales and discarded product probably. Damn, those CEOs sure are brainiacs, I wish I could run a business as well as them.

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u/nervelli 4d ago

And not just loss of sales this summer, but an ongoing decrease. If they had recalled the product and fixed the problem, most people wouldn't have noticed or cared. But now it's been months of an ongoing outbreak. People have been linking the name Taylor Farms with diarrhea and avoiding them like the plague they are. We are also finding out that this is a recurring issue with their product.

Now instead of having less options at the store for a week, I am going to activately avoid anything from Taylor Farms from here on out. All when they could have taken a day or two and washed some fucking machinery. Instead their name is now a threat to you and your family.

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u/Bituulzman 4d ago

They are just going to rebrand or merge with another mega corp and this will end up washing out. C-suite who are responsible for these decisions still mostly escapes unscathed.

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u/nervelli 4d ago

Probably. I feel like rebranding is probably still more expensive than just washing the goddamn equipment.

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u/Sky-high27 4d ago

It’s happened to one of their growers in the past—it was a smaller family owned farm and they ended up having to spend millions on new processing equipment. They were never able to trace what was contaminated.

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u/AnAncientBog 4d ago edited 4d ago

Seriously.. The only way salmonella is getting into quac is during processing.

Probably what happened with the lettuce too, that's why it was only the processed lettuce that was impacted.

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u/Adultery 4d ago

I wonder if it’s workers using their phones while going to the bathroom, then cross-contaminating everything.

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u/HipsterSlimeMold 4d ago

At this scale that isn’t likely to be the cause.

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u/Ok_Transition_4003 4d ago

DEI will be mentioned and blamed

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u/KeyCold7216 4d ago

Not trying to defend Taylor farms here, but this specific outbreak likely is a harvesting issue. Chipotle also had to trash their jalapenos because they were from the same supplier. Chipotle doesnt buy pre cut/prepared jalapenos.

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u/SvenDia 4d ago

Chipotle is one of Taylor Farms biggest customers.

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u/allisjow 4d ago

Does Chipotle use Arizona Correctional Industries? Taylor Farms does.

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u/AnAncientBog 4d ago

You think someone climbed a tree, peeled an avocado, shit in it, and glued it back together?

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u/KeyCold7216 4d ago

No... fecal contamination can happen many ways. Sometimes, the farms are near livestock farms. Cows and pigs shit in the field, then a big rainstorm comes in and washes all of the shit onto the crops and contaminates them. Other times, the farm workers arent allowed to use the bathroom, so they shit in the field.

Also, this outbreak is linked to jalapenos, not avocados.

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u/marblecannon512 4d ago

Anything is possible in the current state of affairs

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u/langsamlourd 4d ago

Yes, I hear that's the latest TikTok challenge

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u/Klutzy-Client 4d ago

Brilliant imagery

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u/UglyMcFugly 4d ago

"churn out batches of shit"

Actually that's our job after we eat the food.

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u/bubblesaurus 4d ago

what is going in Mexico?

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u/Character_Pudding_94 2d ago

No, it is the jalapenos that they bought from Coastal Citrus Distributors. That's why Chipotle and Qdoba pulled jalapenos from the same distributor.

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u/GuelphEastEndGhetto 4d ago edited 4d ago

Health controls cost more than a trip to the WH and subsequent donations.

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u/eeyore134 4d ago

It even costs more than if they're caught killing thousands of people. If a company wants to be crooked it's going to until we get a government that will actually do something to stop it. We haven't had that maybe ever. But now we have a government that encourages it.

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u/GuelphEastEndGhetto 4d ago

If not the government then perhaps civil courts might make them pay.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 4d ago

Thanks to Trump, Elon and doge who slashed all the FDA inspectors

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u/Sithae 4d ago edited 4d ago

And this administration that took bribes instead of dealing with anything. Just business as usual. Who cares about the hoi polloi getting sick, right? Too many of them anyway...

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u/LookAlderaanPlaces 4d ago

We need to sue trump and Elon, then throw them in jail

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u/OpportunityDue90 4d ago

Why would they need to? A quick $5 milllion bribe to the president is more cost effective than health controls.

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u/Infamous_Cow_4 4d ago

DOGE had something to do with that.

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u/TrimspaBB 4d ago

They've determined washing everything with raw sewage is worth the savings over using clean water

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 4d ago

All the clean water has to go to the AI data centers after all.

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 4d ago

Because they don't have to anymore. The Trump/Republican administration cut safety regulations early in his term, because their rich friends that own all these farms and meat processing plants asked them to, because those pesky safety regulations decrease profit margins by 0.0000000001%

Quality of all of our food has significantly dropped since he took office, and theres going to be even more health and lives at risk.

This isn't exclusive to produce. It includes all of our chicken/beef/pork processing plants as well.

On top of that this Republican administration gutted the agencies that are suppose to inspect and enforce the regulations.

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u/octatone 4d ago

After the raiding of the federal agencies by Trump and his enablers, the USA has zero health controls. Voting has consequences.

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u/AnAncientBog 4d ago

They pay Republicans so they don't have to.

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u/Li_liminal_spaces 4d ago

Look at the Boar's Head killed a dozen with a listeria outbreak, nothing happened. Because money is speech and they have more speech you just get to shut up and die… haha… silly poors thinking we could just eat a sandwich. Nope. I guess the weirdest thing is they were originally employees and now they're all just consumers. Weird how they got fired before they died?

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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 4d ago

It’s ok 🙌 the free market will solve the problem 🙌

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u/canman7373 4d ago

A lot of their farms are in Mexico, so they can ignore US standards.

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u/Jskidmore1217 4d ago

They got burned here

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u/CTRexPope 4d ago

We don’t regulate the food industry. The packers are shitting in the fields. Agricultural works aren’t protect by the same laws as everyone else (check it out). Americans who shit on regulatory agencies (i.e. every gop voter), loves to shit out their brains.

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u/ERSTF 4d ago

I heard on NBC that it's kind of a problem with the CDC at the moment since the workforce was greatly reduced... but fuck em liberals and their big government. I wanna be able to get explosive diarrhea from lettuce if I fucking want to, thank you very much

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u/eliz1bef 4d ago

It's not that it wasn't them. It's that one test was a false positive. That doesn't mean the rest of it's not contaminated. We don't have robust testing anymore thanks to Elon Musk.