Michigan health officials confirmed that there were two deaths linked to the outbreak of an intestinal illness called cyclosporiasis.

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[–] 19 points 3 months ago

Courtesy of the Diarrhea Lettuce Company - formerly known as Taylor Farms - who conveniently made use of inmates in Arizona to process the lettuce, at a mere $4.50/hour (or thereabouts - though prisoners were only getting $1.50/hour).

Slavery shouldn't exist - at all.

The Food and Drug Administration has honed in on iceberg lettuce that was supplied by Taylor Farms, a company that has made significant donations to the Trump administration and is has been linked to the use of prison labor.

Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, White House officials declared the outbreak “under control” on July 21. Cases of the illness have risen more than tenfold since then.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    So they shit and piss in the field because of limited break times for more profits .

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    @Sunshine if only they enacted the traceability rule this year like it was supposed to...

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  • [–] 55 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    TBF, Taco Bell identified it in their supply chain before the government, warned the government, and moved to remove it from their stores to avoid further spread. The supplier, Taylor Farms isn’t just in Taco Bell. They also supply grocery stores.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    And, of course, Taylor Farms is well networked with the current administration, so they will probably not facing any serious consequences.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    They’ll avoid criminal charges, but that’s rarely ever been the primary consequences for fordborne illness. Usually agriculture businesses and food chains suffer from lawsuits. And that legal infrastructure is still humming.

    The president was unable to prevent the courts from making him pay his own victims. He can’t save Taylor Farms from being sued into the ground over this outbreak.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I assume this is the result of more relaxed regulations to save money.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    A little of each. There were 11 people in the US to deal with exactly this kind of thing. That team has been cut to three.

    I'm sure there are other issues. Taylor Farms visiting the White House likely didn't help.

    I suspect a functioning government would have been better at tracing the source. I think we still aren't sure? Maybe some lettuce and could be another source.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    Shitting ourselves to death, a human tradition preserved from the earliest days of our species.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    so like we still have not figured out the source and removed it from the system or is it we did and they paid graft to keep selling it?

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  • [–] 51 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Huge surprise: we got rid of all tracking and everything about keeping track of diseases. There's no funding. We cannot collect data, it's against the law.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Huge surprise: we Trump got rid of all tracking and everything about keeping track of diseases. There’s no Elon Musk cut the funding. We cannot collect data, it’s against the law because Trump fucked it up and Elon Musk is an asshole.

    Fixed that for ya.

    Edit: "We" didn't do anything, because congress had no say in these changes. Let's put the blame where it belongs.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Congress didn't stop him, and the people of America voted him in. Let's not try to absolve guilt.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    That doesn't change the fact that he worked outside of his powers without input from congress to cut funding for these things, which is supposed to be illegal. Congress didn't stop him because Republicans are fascists. Blame the people who are actually responsible and not the victims please.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    As someone who recently came close to heart failure due to diarrhea and extreme dehydration, I can tell you that it is no laughing matter.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    RFK eventually wants to bring back amebic/shigella dysentery the OG diarrhea of death. and cholera, with a little e.coli(O15H7)

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    I played with fire today

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Why is there not a band called Diarrhea Lettuce?

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    You don't understand! It's Survival Of The Fittest! And anyway we're FREE, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    You mean Trumporrhea?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Sign up to see the future today

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    It’s funny how religious people call out plagues, flooding, etc when someone they don’t want is in office. Here we have a literal self worshipping asshat breaking constant religious things you aren’t supposed to do, and we have non stop outbreaks, crazy storms and weather, etc yet absolutely crickets on that front.

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