Comment on Dying from Taco Bell wasn’t on my 2026 Bingo Card

cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• lemmyman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Right, I don’t get how this is so under the radar. They took preemptive action ten days ago, a whole week before Taylor Farms was named as the supplier.

  My question is why Taco fucking Bell has better epidemiologists (or whatever) than the government. I meant, I know the answer in broad strokes, but still.

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  • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The pessimist in me says that sometimes the profit motive makes people make the right choices. The optimist in me says that people at TB care for their customers and want to give them the best. The truth probably lies somewhere in between.

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    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh no it is that simple. Diarrhea lettuce is bad for business.

      Lettuce and tomatoes are both known high impact vectors for foodborne illness. So they’re going to try and minimize issues from it, regardless of what they might be required to do by law.

      The Trump admin on the other hand doesn’t like science, across the board. So they’ve been killing everything they can wherever they can, including the nationwide testing for this specific bacteria last year.

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hail corporate.

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