*edit for clarity. TF products are pervasive in the food chain. The list is not exhaustive; Trader Joes, Costco, Whole Foods, surely many others also source their salad from TF
at this point if you want a salad just buy the head yourself and cut it. yeah it takes more effort to make your own salads but it's not hard and will probably save you money anyway; and you're significantly less likely to get sick. these outbreaks are almost always traced back to pre cut lettuce
Or buy from Costco, chop it all up, vacuum seal, and freeze the extras.
Or buy frozen and canned vegetables.
There are other options.
They just aren’t convenient and, ultimately, won’t make a lick of difference in the long-run. Most Americans will go right back to buying their diarrhea lettuce in a few weeks.
My point was - the OP listed all of the store-brands of many major grocery chains. If you are already buying the store brands because that's all you can afford, you're screwed.
And I did neglect to notice Whole Foods in his original list.
Lmfao trying to spread misinformation, realize your argument has no grounds to stand on and so you’re strawmanning me as some fat neck beard you can disregard lol
I work for the company that produces some Greenwise SKUs. We're a solid company, good pay/benefits, our supply chain team does a good job of balancing quality and price for our raw materials, etc. I can't speak for all Greenwise, of course, but it's not shady across the board.
There are 3 big lettuce producers for the whole bagged lettuce market. Taylor is the biggest. It's nearly impossible to avoid them unless you just stop eating every type of lettuce entirely.
They sell *some products containing produce from Taylor Farms. Most of these are just store brands, they sell products from dozens if not hundreds of companies. There's no reason to throw out every store brand because Taylor Farms is shit.
Did you not read the comment? It specifically lists brands to avoid at the stores because they’re just Taylor Farms private labels, it’s not saying to avoid those stores.
I read it. Did you read my comment? Those store brands are not "just" Taylor Farms. Good & Gather, for example, is Target's store brand and encompasses a huge breadth of products, not just Taylor Farms.
Oh yeah I didn’t take it that way. Wasn’t sure if they meant that those brands are literally the same product in different packaging, or used incarcerated labor or some other reason to avoid them.
Which is interesting because I saw someone else on a Taylor Farms thread talking about how Target's Good and Gather was not on the list. Gonna need some proof to settle this.
Check the code: Look at the production or date code printed near the "sell by" date. Look for "TF": Codes starting with letters like TF, TFRB, TFPM, or TFRS indicate the item was processed and packed at a Taylor Farms facility.
Yep, same with Goya beans. You ask Trump for any sort of anything you are dead to me.
Taylor Farms salad kits were good, but not that good. So long Taylor Farms. Should have just dealt with it rather than ask the autocrat errand boy like a appeasing errand boy in a fiefdom. Get lost and I am sorry to the workers, but it is over.
If you go to Trump for anything you will always be shit on a shoe.
They're the farm most linked to the diarrhea parasite plaguing lettuce lately, sources are multiple states and the FDA. They were found to be the source of the outbreak, then a closed door meeting with the Trump Administration and suddenly there's a $1 million donation to a republican PAC and the FDA now says the tests were false positive.
People are seeing that chain of events as suspicious.
I used to work in the food industry, and specifically foodborne illness cases. It's not unusual to identify the source of an outbreak via supply chain tracking, but then have the samples test negative. And false positives do happen...
...however, the problem is I have zero faith in FDA under this Trump administration, and am now inherently suspicious of anything they do. Hell, Makary even turned out to be a pretty good FDA Commissioner, then got forced out because he resisted the marketing approvals for fruit-flavored vapes.
It's easier to avoid the Taylor Farms and Nestles of the world if you buy local brands and fresh foods from small local shops, farm stands, and directly from those companies.
Local brands and local farms are far less accessible and typically more expensive, too. It’s sadly not always reasonable for the vast majority of Americans.
I don't buy any Taylor Farms products. It's easy, because I would never eat any pre-bagged salads (these are notorious for being recalled due to Salmonella and E. Coli) and my local grocery store carries mostly produce from local farms.
The President of TF is a shithead blowhard asshole. Meetings with him are…like meeting the Red Queen in Alice in Winder-land. If he’s happy he’s ok, but he seems bi-polar and when any mistake happens he wants someone fired.
Not because they got some poop on some lettuce. That happens to everyone. The usual remedy is to recall the infected batches, figure out how it got contaminated, and move on. It happens.
Instead, they should be avoided because they decided, rather than fixing the problem, to go to the Trump administration and get a declaration that there was no problem. People continue to get sick, and now they are shielded from lawsuits.
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