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As everyone who doesn’t willingly refer to themselves as a recluse knows, Chipotle has been dealing with some pretty serious health issues. Back in November, the restaurant closed all 43 of its locations in Oregon and Washington after 22 people reported symptoms of E. coli. Eight of those people were hospitalized. Shortly thereafter, the number of people affected grew to 45 and incidents spread across four more states including California, New York, Ohio and Minnesota.
In mid-January, a Chipotle spokesman told the Chicago Tribune that the chain would close every single restaurant in order to hold a company wide food safety meeting in early February. Then, even before that meeting, on February 1, the CDC announced that the E. coli outbreak was over and people were free to gorge themselves on giant burritos and overpriced guacamole once again!
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“it actually does makes some sense”
No, it doesn’t.
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@HuhSJ @Lee Cooper it’s so easy to seem definitive and therefore “right” — but the point does have some merit to it. PR is a big deal and for awhile, the tide was completely anti-GMO. Is it an “out there” theory that hippies came up with? Yes. Is it wrong to write “it actually does make some sense”?
So far, you’ve shown me nothing that makes me want to categorize the theory as absurd.
[At the same time, I think the article makes it pretty clear we aren’t Chipotle truthers…yet.]
I have a family member who’s a regional manager of about 12 Chipotle restaurants. Apparently there was a lot of internal suspicion like this far before the wingnut bloggers ran with it. And apparently this is not an uncommon thing for one company to attempt against another in the food and beverage world, though this does seem extreme. So I dunno. Pick you tin foil hat accordingly.
Did anyone even research the market share that Chipotle would have had in the GMO buying world? Would sabotaging a fucking burrito chain really make any difference for these massive companies? I suspect not.
Maybe the lack of GMO’s contributed to the e. Coli. I’m not sure how this works or fully understand GMO’s but I highly doubt some sort of sabatoge played in role in this burritogate
It’s not market share, it’s about PR and the anti-GMO sea change. So, yes — stranger things have happened…but we aren’t Chipotle truthers just yet.
We live in a world where governments kill presidents. Anything is possible.