YSK: Taylor Farms Iceberg Lettuce is sold under many different names

[u/hardasjello]

Why YSK, Taylor Farms sells their iceberg lettuce to many food stores using different names and you don’t need explosive diarrhea.

Here are some of the different names and stores that sell Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce

Earthbound - Taylor Farms

365 - Whole Foods

Simple Truth - Kroger/Fred Meyer

O-Organics and Signature Select brands - Safeway/Carrs

Greenwise - Publix

Simply Nature - Aldi

Marketside - Walmart

Good and Gather - Target

H.E.B Store brand

Trader Joe’s store brand

[u/Summoarpleaz]

I know there’s an outbreak but the numbers still feel really small compared to how widespread this product is.

[u/GreatMovesKeepItUp69 → u/Summoarpleaz]

It shouldn't happen at all in fairness, but yeah people are treating it like the next COVID and the numbers are fairly small. I remember when in the US COVID reached 800,000 cases per day and were talking 5,000 cases total.

[u/yoloismymiddlename → u/Summoarpleaz]

Because this is a massive overreaction. Greens are notoriously hard to control and are prone to outbreaks, regardless of the supplier. I wish people would have reacted like this when Blue Bell had a completely preventable listeria outbreak.

We have become way too used to convenience. If you ever have the misfortune of working in a food processing environment you will never want to buy any pre-processed foods again.

[u/A-Halfpound → u/yoloismymiddlename]

No. Just nope. The massive reaction is not necessarily about the outbreak. It’s about the fact that it WAS preventable and it WAS being tested for at the source. However, Taylor Farms SOLICITED the Trump Regime to stop the protections, to discard the regulations that were very obviously working to PROTECT consumers AND THEN had the nerve to LIE LIE and LIE some more about the whole situation.

[u/OSUBeavBane → u/yoloismymiddlename]

There have been over 5,000 reported cases when there are typically 200 - 1,000 per year.

[u/_le_slap → u/yoloismymiddlename]

People are reacting more to the obvious results of regulatory capture, rather than the outbreak itself. This is actually a mild reaction to public's loss of faith in our government.

[u/Houdinii1984 → u/_le_slap]

That's where my head is at. I don't eat a ton of iceberg anyway, so I'm not even at risk, but the fact that we used to surveil this bug and defunded it is pissing me off way more than a food-borne illness existing.

I remember going to sanitation classes to work in a kitchen and the woman teaching the class put a couple drops of a lotion on my wrist at the base of my hand along with everyone else. We all immediately washed our hands and went back to class. At the end, she drew the curtains and turned off the lights and used a blacklight to go over us to see the damage. It looked like a CSI episode. All over every surface, all over people's faces. It was so damn disgusting that I became a bit neurotic over handwashing, and this was after we all basically knew what was going to happen so we scrubbed.

That's when I realized that we're all one pinto bean away from a face full of porcelain. The best we can do is track, and that got taken away, along with tracking of a bunch of other bugs. This is the price we're paying for all of DOGE's work because tracking bugs is woke and DEI.

At this point, the ONLY bugs being mandatory tracked in our food is Salmonella and E. coli. Now, campylobacter, listeria, shigella, vibrio, and yersinia on top of the now famous cyclosporiasis, are also optional and not actively tracked properly. That list virtually covers all of our fresh foods in one way or another. Both Listeria and Vibrio are potentially deadly. Listeria has a kill rate of 1:5 and if Vibrio gets in your blood stream, it's between 1:2 and 1:3 fatalities.

There is no kill step like cooked foods, meaning the only thing we have is tracking and early detection. Now, we have no early detection and the only warning we have is people getting sick in excessive numbers, a lagging indicator. The regulations and consolidation of power is a real nightmare scenario, and I don't get why it's gotta take people dying to garner attention.

[u/_le_slap → u/Houdinii1984]

Thank you for your eye opening example.

I agree with you in everything except a minor point. These programs were not defunded because of woke or DEI. While that may have been the outward stated reason, they were defunded to justify tax breaks for the wealthy.

The oligarchical class feels no responsibility for the welfare of this country. They see it as their right to extract wealth out of us for nothing in return. So if a few of us die of foodborne illness, so be it.

This is the natural end state of deregulation and regulatory capture.