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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 #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.

The WalMart Waltons are a "family"

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

(The mob is also "Family-owned")

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

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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.

> 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.

Every family-owned company I've worked for has been owned by a greedy family.

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

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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.

Mary Antoinette should've tried that line "It's not a monarchy, just a family-owned state"

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

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post #3

Marketing blogspam by an ambulance chasing attorney who stands to make a lot of money from this if public perception moves a certain way.

Started out with "It's not X, it's also Y", followed by an em-dash. I didn't read any further than that.

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

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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.

> 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.

if anything they are even more tight fisted because every penny is theirs.

publicly traded/vc funded companies have always paid me the most because the money isn’t really theirs.

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

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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.

It’s a multi billion dollar corporation. It’s not a mom and pop 10 acre farm. Family owned means nothing at that point.

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

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post #41
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.

The WalMart Waltons are a "family" At the core, "Family-owned" just means nepotism is preferred over merit. (The mob is also "Family-owned")

SpaceX is more “family owned” than Walmart.

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

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post #36

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.

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.

Isn't the "explosive" superfluous?

Isn't all diarrhea explosive? Has anyone had "unexplosive" diarrhea? Or what aspect of the ordinance renders it "explosive"? And the cause is essentially exposure of the foodstuffs (in this case, likely leafy greens) to feces?

So poop causes poop.

Who pooped in my salad :(

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

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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.

How hard would it be for them to know their immediate supplier?
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