All this stuff is probably true, but it makes it sound like the workers are contaminating lettuce.
Wide-spread produce contamination happens through dirty irrigation water that sewage has leaked into.
Even if workers were taking shits in the field, it wouldnāt be enough to make these events and someone with intestinal diseases wouldnāt last long out doing manual labor in the hot sun (ask me how I know).
Food borne illnesses are almost always from shortcuts companies do to save a few bucks (donāt test the water, donāt test the produce, etc.)
this needs to be shared far and wide
I advise calling your LOCAL BUSINESSES and asking if they are selling Taylor Farms produce. I advise following that question with expressions of concern, distrust in the face of Taylor Farms bribes, and expressing a worry that the contaminates will spread to other salad greens. Make keeping Taylor Farms produce in stores a PR nightmare.
Farm inspections are a state-level issue--inspectors come from the state government, not the federal, so Taylor's donations to Trump had nothing to do with not being inspected. (That's where donations to state legislators would come in, which I assume Taylor also makes.)
but there was a law that was supposed to go into effect earlier this year that would have made it much easier for the government to track produce and other food products, so that instead of "an outbreak has started, now we have to talk to every place that sold that stuff and hope they can track who their suppliers are and where the contaminated stuff came from." There was supposed to be a federal database of such things.
and part of the reason that database was not in place to help with this outbreak is that people including Taylor lobbied Trump to kill it.
