NYT reports cyclospora likely entered food supply via human feces

Thought this comic could do with a 2026 update! BONUS Panel below! 👇 #LettuceRecall #Cyclospora #ExplosiveDiarrhea

TRUMP CUT STAFF. AMERICANS PAID FOR IT! CNN: Trump’s brutal cuts gutted the very lab experts needed to trace the #Cyclospora outbreak hitting HALF the country. A former federal official says the “perfect storm” of cuts destroyed our ability to find the source. Call it what it is: pure negligence.

People are owed permanent, well-maintained toilets & sanitation & sewage systems. When you don't have those, you are not only risking local outbreaks, but--as could be the case right now--you risk outbreaks farther down the line. Sanitation is one of the great achievements of public health and law.

@samseder.bsky.social we STILL don't know every place Taylor Farms shipped #Cyclospora tainted lettuce to, but we should. Trump's FDA told Congress to postponed a law passed to track it. So it wasn't just #DOGE cuts that led to sick people. @mattlech.bsky.social www.marlerblog.com/case-news/ta...

#ProudBlue #Defend #Cyclospora I go to bed and wake up to discover the FDA screwed up about “who” is responsible for the parasite causing explosive diarrhea. It isnt the major Trump supporter - nope - even tho Taco Bell pulled all its lettuce. Hmm - I think I sense some skulduggery.

"CDC's food safety budget has failed to keep pace with inflation... the agency reportedly fulfilled only about 40 percent of requests for support from state and local partners during the previous year."

hello, it appears Taylor Farms has been throwing money at MAGA so it can keep making diarrhea lettuce uninterrupted with traceability regulations. #MedSky 🩺 #Cyclospora #FoodSafety

"Perhaps the worst blow to food safety science was the [Trump] administration’s elimination of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, a group of experts whose recommendations have informed many major food safety programs." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...

I am so afraid for our food supply. Truly frightened and worried. “Cyclospora Spreads Through Human Feces. How Did It Get Into Our Food Supply?” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...

“The current case numbers — more than 6,000 people sickened in Michigan alone — suggest that human feces somehow got into our food system on a “surprising scale,” said Matthew Moore, a food safety microbiologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...

Today's column: "It’s not the first time we have seen foodborne illnesses in the U.S., but I worry that this outbreak is taking advantage of our weakened public health system." #cyclospora

"The large number of cases suggests that excrement entered the food system on a “surprising scale.”"

The Food Traceability Rule existed so Americans could know where their food came from. Taylor Fresh Foods retained lobbyists on food safety. The FDA delayed it to 2028. Six days later the company gave MAGA Inc $1 million. At least 1,644 are sick from its lettuce. The source cannot be traced.

yep "To clarify, this false-positive lab sample DOES NOT change the basis for FDA's ongoing outbreak investigation or the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms"

It’s totally not alarming when food and product safety rules are only applied to companies that don’t donate to cyclospora Caligula’s dark money group.