Taylor Farms linked to Taco Bell lettuce as cyclosporiasis source
Re: cyclospora, Taco Bell having ethics and going "you know what, it's always the fucking lettuce, why don't we just pull that until we know what's going on" resulting in all the outlets going "LETTUCE SOLD AT TACO BELL LINKED TO EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA" is a fantastic way to discourage ethics in future.
Adam173Taylor farms , owned by a Trump donor, supplies bagged lettuce to *everywhere*. Taco bell did the right thing proactively, and they are getting all the blame. The blame lies with RFK period. Taco bell being the fall guy is crazy.
Kari Dru134It's also going to hurt people because they'll think they're in the clear if they don't eat Taco Bell. And that's not true. It's grocery store salad also.
SeasonalPun41Meanwhile the people that make “raw cheese” or whatever it is declined to recall their tainted produce and almost nobody seems to have heard that.
JayIsPainting 🍁34As a former food industry person, this makes me so mad. They did the right thing.
Veleda_k15But if I acknowledge the facts, how will I get in my "Mexican food is scary and dirty" jokes?
Mary!! 🐓❤️5awful :( good on them for being safe and giving a shit (no pun intended lol)
WhinterQueen137i’ve been in restaurant and farm management and knew enough to know that “taco bell lettuce” meant some big producer’s lettuce. so when ppl were also saying the grocery store deli and mcdonald’s & other big chains i knew it had to be taylor farms. but most ppl wouldn’t, they have no reason to know
moby dickgirl33It's the Spanish flu of cyclospora
Amy Hoy12this is the inverse mcdonald's coffee scald lady. or just generally, "whoever smelt it, dealt it". taco bell did the right thing. and it wasn't their (direct) fault. unlike that time chipotle's internal practices made people sick.
crb10793Beyond the great point here about incentives for businesses (which is why you have objective inspectors Elon!), is there another leafy veggie that is less susceptible to these organisms...like is Kale resistant/immune to them?
Comfort Cripes2This is REALLY not related but my taco bell also didn't have cinnamon twists yesterday and I'm laughing thinking of those growing on a farm. They did, though, have lettuce. Which I ate and only now realized. Ah well, I've had bowled salads this week too.
Investigators have linked shredded iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell restaurants by Taylor Farms as a potential source of contamination in the cyclosporiasis outbreak, according to a report
Kami54Its always Taylor Farms! I used to love their salad kits too
John Grunder12I live 15 miles away from the Taylor Farms lettuce farms in the Salinas Valley... I ate their lettuce last week and did not get sick... while my mother 2,000 miles away did not eat any lettuce and did get sick... All I am sure of is that it is Trump's fault for gutting the FDA and CDC... 🤨
Professor Sutton10Taylor Farms salad got me sick a few years back - I stopped eating them after that 😭
ONE INFINITY9If this amount is stated to be confirmed, just imagine how many undocumented cases exist. That's the thing about a pathogen, that's why we had a ROBUST CDC until... Now, OUR FOOD SUPPLY is sickening Americans! IS IT GREAT YET? -ONE.🇺🇸🤔 bsky.app/profile/forb... -ONE.
DenverChick8Taylor Farms' retail brands: Good & Gather (Target) Marketside (Walmart) Simple Truth (Kroger) Private Selection (Kroger) O Organics (Safeway / Albertsons)
newblue25.bsky.social6I post notes to myself. One says *Never eat anything from Taylor Farms* after a previous food contamination issue.
lowtax speedrun enjoyer424i feel like if i know the name of your produce company - and i know taylor farms - you’ve probably done enough bad shit that they should shut you down
Mikki Kendall38Threads figured this out a week ago...
kelly jensen30Social media folks pinged it to Taylor Farms nearly a week ago. www.facebook.com/kristina.woo...
NuDog21Taylor Farms (formerly Taylor Fresh Foods), which accounts for one in every three salads consumed in the U.S. and Canada, is a massive, privately-held producer of salads and fresh foods, generating $7 billion in annual revenue. They are likely going to pay a tiny fine, and go right back to it!
Kimberley Johnson18Lettuce pray we don't get explosive diarrhea. (not sorry)
Sara Sanchez7I ordered food from Taco Bell one time, tasted it and was like "absolutely not" and never looked back. I feel extremely good about that decision today.
Jonny Wakefield7It’s always the ones you least suspect
martin5oh my god? i shared this post with the group chat a week ago and we were kinda poking fun at her but she was right? 100% vindicated
Steven Santos5Somebody who didn't wash their hands poetically ran their hands through the lettuce leaves at magic hour.
Original Berf of Chicagoland5well i'm glad we are closer to a source for this. I have a specific local farmer that i get my greens from (and I'm growing my own) so i feel pretty good but i hope there's more info soon.
Run for the bathroom. Shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms to Taco Bell restaurants has been linked to a parasitic outbreak that has infected thousands of people in five states. www.wsj.com/articles/hea...
Bea30taylor farms is a $7b agribiz that spreads from wa to ca to fl. they also own earthbound farms and eat smart brands. big ag is notorious for not providing proper sanitation facilities in the fields. it also gave $139.5m to repubs in 2024. tf hosts high $ fundraisers for them.
Rudy 🇨🇦23It’s all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits.
Gail Wadsworth10Taylor Farms is the world's largest lettuce producer. And one of the worst employers in the US. Workers there are consistently abused. It's clear that TF cares about nothing but profit.
Tara ❌️👑10Thankful my broke ass can't afford to eat out. Winning 🤷♀️ lol
Spaaaace Ghoooost8Someone called this outbreak MAHA Blast, and I have no notes.
Nolan Zugernat7“Taylor Farms supplies grocery stores and restaurants across the country, although it’s unclear exactly how many of its products and which locations may be affected.” Their salad kits are sold at Walmart and many other grocery stores.
This framing is so disgusting and irresponsible. Yes, Taylor Farms supplies Taco Bell. THEY ALSO SUPPLY TONS OF OTHER RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES. People will take "avoid Taco Bell" as the lesson which is NOT HELPFUL. www.wcvb.com/article/cycl...
Julia Blough33Taco Bell did the responsible thing and took lettuce of the menu right away. Taylor Farms supplies a zillion places that were still serving lettuce.
hershalan.bsky.social8@tacobell.bsky.social are the heroes here.
Phidippus Audax4I used to work at a Walmart deli, guess where they got all their fresh veggies . . . that’s right it was Taylor farms
Lauren4Just SHUT THEM DOWN. 2026...lettuce. 2013. Lettuce. 2024...onions.
Parchment4Publix and heb sell taylor farms salads.
Lexi "Pro-Democracy" 💙2Agree! Demonizing Taco Bell is stupid and so unproductive to end this. Yum! Brands better get the PR folks on this quick.
Mike the Mad Biologist and PM of the "Islamic Republic of Japan"152When people wonder why food safety investigations try to keep information private until the investigation is complete, this is one reason why. Taco Bell did the right thing but it's being penalized for *what its supplier did*. That's not a good incentive to cooperate when future outbreaks occur.
Basil Da Chefcario ΘΔ 🍳2I feel like this whole thing is just a way to blame Taco Bell instead of the government for cutting money from food safety programs, just deflecting blame away from the ACTUAL cause.
Lotta folks not reading the rest of this thread. Taylor Farms has their HQ in downtown Salinas, but they aren't harvesting locally and shipping to MI. Their produce comes from all over. www.taylorfarms.com/our-story/
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)18According to their Wikipedia, there have been numerous outbreaks connected to Taylor Farma over the years, including thr 2024 e coli outbreak in McDonald's. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_...
rule4080.bsky.social2In fairness Taylor Farms is a division of Typhoid Mary Wholesalers, Inc.
They also forced workers to attend pro Cheeto rallies, treat them like crap, anti-union, need more be said?!
Taylor Farms also owns and runs Earthbound Organics, which is available in nearly every grocery store across the US
TeeRacey19603Not a taco bell issue. Its a stripped down, impotent FDA AND CDC ISSUE. THANKS RFK JR.
Jennifer de Guzman Strikes Again2Uh-oh. I have a bag of Earthbound Farms romaine in my fridge. We ate some of it last night, and our bowels are still intact, but, hey, there’s several days between consumption and symptom onset with this parasite, so we’ll see!
SrslyJosh2I don’t fully trust unnamed officials inside Trump’s CDC, but leafy greens are often the culprit when there’s an outbreak of food poisoning. Best to just avoid all leafy greens unless you’re cooking them.
molly surely not taylor farms owned by californian republican donor bruce taylor???
Jeffrey11Taco Bell would never hurt us. Not with lettuce anyway
Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime4Ah man. Now I can’t go back to buying their bagged salads once they get rid of the diarrhea bug.
Lumpy_Space_Prince 4Eat the Rich, wash the lettuce!
Rita1Oh no! I always buy the salad at Costco, won't do that again
Bruce Taylor, CEO of Taylor Farms which is suspected to be connected to the cyclosporine outbreak, is a big Republican donor with at least 14 recent donations >$10K across multiple states. …
Mark Sumner 🌒15That’s cyclospora outbreak. Please stop helping me, spell correct. Taylor has been involved in multiple food safety events going back to at least 2011. In 2024, they were connected with an E. coli outbreak spread on onions sold to McDonald’s. …
Deborah2Ooooh - they also supply KFC... Better pony up, Bruce. The boss is gonna need a lot more zeroes added.
Clara McK1Taylor Farms hosted Ron DeSantis when he was going for the Presidential nomination
Lauren1Mark, what kind of complaints have there been about how they treat the actual farmers, los and las migras doing the work?
Jenn M-S1IIRC this is not Taylor Farms's first go-around with problems like this . . .
Lexi "Pro-Democracy" 💙1I found this too. bsky.app/profile/lexi...
WaPo: CDC identifies a potential source for the cyclosporiasis wave (Taco Bell supplier Taylor Farms)
Taylors Farms was also the McDonalds onion supplier linked to an E. Coli outbreak in 2024 where a woman died and dozens more were sickened.
Michael Clark13Taylor Farms came out against the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 over regulations to test food products for contamination and to allow the FDA to quarantine areas where unsafe food originated. Despite their big talk, a couple of years later the company had a series of recalls of tainted food.
Defund Wildfires5Okay Okay But surely they won’t poison us a third time….
bertin.bsky.social3See just as we would expect… the market reacted to Taylor Farms’ inability to not cause harm with its products and put it out of business.
hole friend1I’m starting to notice a trend here
It's not just Taco Bell. Taylor Farms supplies Ralphs, Gelson's, Vallarta, Bristol Farms, McDonald's, Chipotle, Subway, Burger King, the grocery stores in the screenshot, and more. This isn't their first food safety issue. They were the cause of the recent major E. Coli outbreak. They are unsafe.
eilrach.bsky.social6They also own the Earthbound Farms brand.
⬆️UpstateCentrist 🥀🏳️🌈🐝💙3One of the crazy takeaways I had after reading Fast Food Nation was that a lot of times the conglomerates like McDonald’s for example, had safer than usual food because the threat of losing the business of McDonald’s could bankrupt a company. I guess that’s fallen by the wayside.
Karmageddon2Walmart. Their bagged salads and ready-to-eat salads are sold at Walmart.
This is real grim if you have, say, eaten this brand's bagged salads almost every day for months. 😬😰
Chris Knight5They’re the best bagged salads!!!! 😭
wcc99.bsky.social2If you are a regular Taco Bell customer the odds are good that you have already built up a tolerance to explosive diarrhea.
Joel Humowiecki ✶✶✶✶1I guess the four bags I have in the fridge are going in the garbage. 🤷♂️
Wrongolia1Little Leaf Farms isn't available everywhere, but they grow hydroponic lettuce in greenhouses. I've always like it.
Amitah1😲 Yikes! That my household’s go-to for most bagged veggies too.
Jbr1Bro, I have eaten their lettuce atleast biweekly since may. 🫠 I have other issues that lead to stomach problems now I have no idea whether I’ve been poisoned.
The culprits for this epidemic turn out to be Taylor Farms and surprise, surprise Taco Bell… www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/h...
blueginger99.bsky.social6There was a department that monitored cyclospora for decades but it was gutted by the GOP. Same thing with Screw Worm, etc.
Strong Jersey איתן4If you read to the end of the article it's pretty clear that Taco Bell is just one of many possible places that got the tainted lettuce. This is on Taylor Farms.
MegAwake3It's their supplier, not Taco Bell. They don't grow their own produce.
Pat🐓🍅3So Taco Bell sells lettuce?
Bob2This is what happens when Taco Bell goes rogue and joined the RepubliCON Klan, I hope all Dems will stop going there, if you don’t not only are you contributing to magat Nazis but you’ll have a disgusting uncomfortable after effects called Trumparrhea
Kats Peterson2Taco Bell doesn't *sell* the lettuce itself. It *purchased* the lettuce it happens to use from Taylor Farms. This is on the farm.
Socks the Plushy ✡️21Listen, Taco Bell is a big company with shitty practices but it's pretty misleading to connect this specifically to Taco Bell 1. Taco Bell has pulled the lettuce voluntarily already 2. Taylor Farms provides lettuce to a LOT of places 3. This isn't the first time Taylor Farms has been implicated
#VeryAsian Eric2I'm surprised they were able to narrow the source of explosive diarrhea to Taco Bell's lettuce... 😝
KathleenB🌈💙💙💙🐸🐸🇺🇦2It seems like it's always Taylor Farms
