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[–] 66 points 1 month ago (12 children)
  • [–] 56 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 17 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 1 point 1 month 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 1 month ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    I just ain't gonna eat lettuce for a while, we still have taylor farms bagged stuff out every day at work still, but I doubt it's getting used much.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    !BrandNewSentence@lemmy.today

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  • I played with fire today

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Why is there not a band called Diarrhea Lettuce?

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