Now is the Time

someone on reddit explained 😭

(via bsky)

In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.

Not a single human being called or emailed me to let me know I was getting kicked off and needed to prepare to leave tomorrow. They cancelled worked today for air quality, and the field lead didn't say anything to me. Like, they just kinda of expected everyone to closely read this email and pick up the slight change. I guess I was supposed to find out when the room key stopped working tomorrow lol.

This company is pretty infamous among shovelbums/archaeologists for being TERRIBLE to work with, it's on all the "don't take a project unless you are desperate, because they treat you like shit and underpay you" but holy fuck I would have expected, like, a human being to tell me I was supposed to leave and why.

also this comes after I nearly passed out from heat stroke after hiking about a km of slope in direct sunlight and then through wetland, and the kestrel (temp checker thing) said it was 114F out, and I was like "hey dont we take breaks for heat" and it turns out that, yeah, we're supposed to stop work if the kestrel reads past 110F (and take scheduled breaks if it's over 91F) but the company's way of avoiding this seems to be to get really annoyed when you ask to check the temperature.