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@zephzoid BREAKING NEWS: Chipotle has officially partnered with Palantir in a “food safety partnership” It gets worse…Taylor Farms was confirmed as their produce supplier. Somehow gets even worse…they also already paid the largest criminal fine ever imposed in a U.S. food-safety case. Yet they are still viewed as one of the “healthiest” chains… Chipotle is piloting a Palantir Foundry platform that centralizes restaurant-level food-safety signals. Yeah, the same Palantir used by ICE for immigration enforcement, often described by critics as a mass surveillance company due to defense partnerships with the US military. Chipotle is making efforts to clean up food-safety exposure that has created many headaches for the empire. In 2020, the company agreed to a $25 million criminal fine and a three-year deferred-prosecution agreement covering outbreaks that sickened more than 1,100 people. The Department of Justice said failures included sick-worker exclusion and food temperature controls. The immediate backdrop is the 2026 multistate Salmonella Javiana outbreak linked to jalapeños from Sinaloa, Mexico, which the FDA reported 431 illnesses and 57 hospitalizations. Taylor Farms is also publicly confirmed as a Chipotle produce supplier, but that does not establish that every Chipotle restaurant shipment comes from Taylor Farms. However, it is concerning after the cyclospora outbreak that was linked to Taylor Farms earlier this year that Chipotle is participating in that same supply chain. The important context here is that Chipotle operates a national supply chain which can create food safety issues. If you want to truly buy local, check out the Localize app to find food directly from farmers instead.
