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  • btw people are DYING from this infection now:

    * https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michigan-d...

    by ck2
  • I was always under the impression that disease and pesticide don't usually just "wash off" at home.
    by t1234s
  • This depends on the food and the disease/pesticide in question.
    by ceejayoz
  • I remember seeing advice, years ago, to let lettuce sit in a weak bleach solution before use. But I doubt that’s ever been followed by many people. Current advice (at least at home) seems to be to rinse lettuce to remove dirt ( https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/safe-handling-of-lettuce-... ). Apparently most health problems from lettuce are on the surface and not particularly hard to get off.
    by maxlybbert
  • All I know is the Taylor Farms Creamy Ranch from Costco gave me the worst stomach aches for 4 days and horrible gas
    by meroes
  • I actually feel sorry for people that they have to eat this stuff.
    by bamboozled
  • "is not marketing. It is evidence". ugh.

    I'm so confused how to feel about these articles. this one is clearly AI written. But blessed by a lawyer so we think the stuff in here is accurate with facts?

    I've accidentally posted an AI article before that seemed just as this was, and the community flagged that to oblivion. Rightfully so I think?

    Does Hacker News need a "report AI" and we can then hide the AI articles as a filter?

    by nate
  • This is the Claudiest article I've seen in a long time. "Defensible view." "No correction, no note, no acknowledgment." "The honest statement about X."

    So the next question is, how much of this is true at all, versus just being hallucinations.

    by StilesCrisis
  • The lawyers rewrote it four times
    by Simulacra
  • Related: https://www.wired.com/story/diarrhea-outbreak-taylor-farms-m...
    by josefritzishere
  • It's next level for a family owned company act like they have stock holders to please by cutting corners rather then doing the right thing.
    by cube00
  • stockholders? no. stakeholders? absolutely.
    by ratelimitsteve
  • The WalMart Waltons are a "family"

    At the core, "Family-owned" just means nepotism is preferred over merit.

    (The mob is also "Family-owned")

    by gowld
  • Mary Antoinette should've tried that line "It's not a monarchy, just a family-owned state"
    by morkalork
  • 95% of farms are "family owned". Large scale family owned farms make up about 4% of all farms but 48% of agricultural output. https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2025/Censu...

    There's a tendency to want to be nice to farmers who own "family owned farms" because it evokes imagery steeped in quaint classical Americana. It is mostly from misinformation that this impression arises. Don't feel bad for a family owned farm that isn't going well. They get special bankruptcy rules, they can sell off their very valuable land as a backstop, and most of all they are probably not as small and quaint and cute as you think they are.

    by striking
  • It’s a multi billion dollar corporation. It’s not a mom and pop 10 acre farm. Family owned means nothing at that point.
    by darth_avocado
  • Family or not, when these are the executives you hire for over a decade it shouldn't surprise anyone that events like this occur: https://www.ksbw.com/article/taylor-farms-tennessee-ex-presi...

    >Brian Thure served as president of Taylor Farms Tennessee from about 2012 until March 2026 and allegedly used his authority over finances, payroll, vendors and accounting to divert company money for personal benefit. >Taylor Farms claims the alleged fraud came to light during an IRS audit

    by usernomdeguerre
  • > family owned company act like they have stock holders

    A family owned company does have shareholders. The shareholders are the people who own the company.

    There’s nothing all that special about a family owned business in this regard, even though they want you to believe it’s completely different. Family owned is a loose term anyway. Large companies are large companies.

    by Aurornis
  • Marketing blogspam by an ambulance chasing attorney who stands to make a lot of money from this if public perception moves a certain way.
    by pc86
  • engaging with the identity of the arguer rather than the argument. 5 yard penalty, loss of down.
    by ratelimitsteve
  • How much does astroturfing pay these days?
    by felooboolooomba
  • Commercial insurance means whatever action they do or don't do is ultimately irrelevant. The supplier will re-brand under another name when things quiet down, proceed to continue selling product, and deduct any capital loss over a year or two.

    Global weather changes means more tropical pests and pathogens are migrating north. People are literally on fire, and shitting their pants in excitement. =3

    by Joel_Mckay
  • Started out with "It's not X, it's also Y", followed by an em-dash. I didn't read any further than that.
    by pixlmint
  • How much of a sin is it for the ambulance-chaser to chase ambulances if the ambulances are there and legitimate? This is what the tort law is for. He's not the one who sprayed feces-water on the lettuce...
    by curuinor
  • I have not been following this very closely but it seems like the source of this cyclospora contamination has been very challenging to identify.

    Especially because it takes weeks before the infected start showing symptoms.

    Isn't it reasonable to update the official statement as new information emerges?

    "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” -John Maynard Keynes.

    by senthil_rajasek
  • Took me a sec to realize you weren't quoting the guy from Tool lol
    by gazebo2
  • Explosive diarrhea doesn’t take long to show up, and it may be hard to identify which company or who’s responsible when you fired all of the people from the department that it’s supposed to police those type of things.
    by Danox
  • What changed is that right after the CEO visited the White House, a retraction was issued. This White House does not have a history of being factual, but does have a history of doing "favors" for big donors, which Taylor Farms is.
    by TylerE
  • And TBF, I don't think they've established why the issue is so prevalent in Michigan specifically, since Taylor Farms apparently doesn't have any unique connection to Michigan.
    by peder
  • > Especially because it takes weeks before the infected start showing symptoms.

    I just wanted to say that your phrasing here is a fabulously ominous one for the first episode of an HBO show.

    by falcor84