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Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

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Re: Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

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Post by Wistar »

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #2

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.

I have gone down that quote’s rabbit hole before and it looks a lot more apocryphal than Maynard.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/

Re: Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

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Post by bushbaba »

estearum wrote: post #7
sharps_xp wrote: post #6

I went to restaurant last night and asked where the chicken was sourced from and their response was "it's not the usual place we get chicken, but it's US Farm Raised Hatched", but I misinterpreted the her answer as a distributor name but then I realized even if I had a name, I probably couldn't figure out past that whether or not these chickens were pasture raised. If food labels are law, why doesn't this apply to wh…

Are food labels required to identify where they're sourced from? I don't think so?

It’s not but they should list country of origin for the ingredients

Re: Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

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Post by pc86 »

bushbaba wrote: post #13
estearum wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are food labels required to identify where they're sourced from? I don't think so?

It’s not but they should list country of origin for the ingredients

"Should" or "are required to?"

Re: Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

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Post by dyauspitr »

sharps_xp wrote: post #6

I went to restaurant last night and asked where the chicken was sourced from and their response was "it's not the usual place we get chicken, but it's US Farm Raised Hatched", but I misinterpreted the her answer as a distributor name but then I realized even if I had a name, I probably couldn't figure out past that whether or not these chickens were pasture raised. If food labels are law, why doesn't this apply to wh…

Seems like more bureaucracy that would make it even harder for new restaurants to get set up and the paperwork they would have to maintain in order to provide that information.

Re: Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

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Post by vkou »

dyauspitr wrote: post #15
sharps_xp wrote: post #6

I went to restaurant last night and asked where the chicken was sourced from and their response was "it's not the usual place we get chicken, but it's US Farm Raised Hatched", but I misinterpreted the her answer as a distributor name but then I realized even if I had a name, I probably couldn't figure out past that whether or not these chickens were pasture raised. If food labels are law, why doesn't this apply to wh…

Seems like more bureaucracy that would make it even harder for new restaurants to get set up and the paperwork they would have to maintain in order to provide that information.

Such are the wages of destroying trust in the supply chain.

When you elect visibly corrupt people who promised to destroy that trust upstream, you double the burden for everyone downstream from them.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Re: Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

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Post by drivebyhooting »

> A company’s public statement in the middle of an outbreak is not marketing. It is evidence — what the company said it knew, and when, published to the world at a moment when nobody had the benefit of hindsight.

Stopped reading immediately. If we’re just going to delegate writing to Claude, I won’t bother reading this. And maybe I’ll just delegate my decisions to Claude directly.

Re: Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

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Post by striking »

cube00 wrote: post #9

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.

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.

Re: Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

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Post by falcor84 »

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #2

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.

> 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.

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