Jeff Guo
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1,187 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Sep
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And, you're so sorry to have to say this, to the best of our knowledge, it is mostly spread by poop.
Specifically, human poops.
And Taylor Farms is very interesting because this company kind of came out of nowhere about 30 years ago and suddenly turned into the leading salad supplier in America.
It's a multi-billion dollar operation that supplies not just Taco Bell, but also McDonald's and almost every store you've ever shopped in from Costco to Whole Foods to Aldi to Safeway.
And we at Planet Money, we have noticed that this outbreak is revealing two very strange and fascinating systems that both have had a huge impact on how safe our food is.
Both of these systems have gone through massive revolutions in recent decades.
One of them is the incredibly large scale and lucrative lettuce industry.
And the other is the complicated regulatory system that is supposed to stop these outbreaks.
Let's see.
Tell us, what did you have for breakfast today?
And we also talked to Joe Pizzini.
He was the director of agriculture for Taylor Farms.
And he was part of the revolution that turned the lettuce industry into big lettuce.
Maybe not as big as potatoes.
Yeah.
Over the years, the lettuce industry has become an economic juggernaut.
And it is in part because of how big the industry has grown that lettuce can also be a big pain in the, you know.
And to understand what's happening now, you have to understand just how kind of miraculous this supply chain is.
You see, there are really two pivotal moments in the history of lettuce that changed how we eat vegetables, changed how we buy vegetables, and also changed how risky our vegetables are.
Can you just list for us all the different types of vegetables that you've farmed in your life?
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