r/YouShouldKnow • u/hardasjello • 5h ago

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

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

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u/Gloomy_Fig2138 3h ago

The ghost of Upton Sinclair was already furious. He expected readers to be more concerned with the workers’ plight in the novel.

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u/mst3k_42 1h ago

Did you intend to reply to me?

At any rate, the two main themes of the Jungle being food safety and worker safety, both apply to this situation as well. I think government is more focused on targeting the point at which produce got contaminated, which makes sense…

But are they going to solve the problem of farm workers who spend ridiculous amounts of hours in the fields each day with no easy access to a toilet? Or the problem of disgusting run off from factory farms of pigs who aren’t being fined or sanctioned and what not? Probably not. You can guess why.

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u/Gloomy_Fig2138 1h ago

Oh man, that’s embarrassing. No, it was intended as a reply to the comment that Upton Sinclair’s ghost is furious about the state of our food safety.

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u/mst3k_42 55m ago

Gotcha. It’s funny, I’ve never read the book but if anyone would ever want a summary I’d say it was about horrific work conditions in factories and such. Like why we have OSHA. And the food side of things is why we have the USDA, FDA, and CDC.

Though that’s all been defunded now so fuck us, I guess?