Chipotle , experience for its unwavering and free-spoken opposition of GMOs and processed food , has taken some major publicity hit over the preceding few months : E. coli outbreak , subsequent stock blockage , a decline in sales , liberal burrito bribes– you jazz all about it . But according to the eternally reliable Internet , its health issues might not be the solution of incompetency or unsound luck . Something downright dastardly may ( allegedly ) be chance at the highest levels in Chipotle . Namely , intricate corporate sabotage by evil , faceless biotech conglomerates who support and capitulate GMOs , those genetically manipulated food for thought that most of us run through every day . And to remember , all this just in clip forthe newX - Files .
So take your tin - transparency burrito promotional material , fold it into a well-off lid , place that hat on your noggin , and follow me down this rabbit kettle of fish of Chipotle truthers , Dr. Mehmet Oz , andbatshit Internet confederacy theories . It will be fun ! I prognosticate .
Chipotle allegedly targeted by “biotech mafia”
The rumor stem from the websiteREALfarmacy , where author Mike Adams assert that " Chipotle ’s e.coli outbreaks are not random chance . They are the result of the biotech industry unleash bioterrorism attacks against the only debauched nutrient company that has publicly denounced GMOs . "
So fundamentally , staunchly anti - GMO Chipotle ’s meat supply was purposefully spiked with strain of E. Coli by surreptitious agents of the " biotech mafia , " in social club to bring long-lived impairment to the brand and its reputation . Behind the corporate sabotage allegedly lie biotech / farming giants like Monsanto .
OK … I mean brainsick things have happened , right ? They are planning to rebootFull Housethis summer . By that logic , anything is potential .
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Adams is the editor ofNatural News , and has made a name for himself by post the gastronomic equivalent of chemtrail posits , sandwiched between innocuous articles praise the benefits of coconut oil . He also die by the moniker " Health Ranger " – I think that ’s authoritative to observe .
Obviously , if there is even a sliver of truth contain in this mess , it would be the most prescient food controversy of our lifetime . And needless to say , the general world is getting a little riled up about the " news . "
And this is just the tip of the Twitterin ' crisphead lettuce .
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But Adams ' claim get a little marshy . " How do we screw ? The CDC has already admitted that some of these e.coli outbreaks involve a ' rare genetic straining ' of e.coli not normally seen in foods . Furthermore , we also have a go at it the cartroad record of the biotech industry engaging in the most criminal , dirty , sleazebag tactics conceivable against any somebody or fellowship that speaks out against GMOs , " he says .
This is the lynchpin of Adams ' disceptation , and it ’s base on – get this – a history about Dr. Oz . Though I do appreciate his use of the Holy Writ " sleazebag , " this Dr. Oz affair is questionable .
Dr. Oz vs. GMOs: a precursor to Chipotle
" Doctor Oz , for model , was maliciously targeted in a defamation campaign fund by the biotech industry earlier this year . The onslaught against Oz was initiate because he in public expressed his support for honest GMO labeling on nutrient , " Adams says .
This has some semblance of Sojourner Truth : Dr. Oz – using his own team , of course – infer that some of the doc that were slandering his namewere devote shill " link to pro - GMO mathematical group . “But aside from personal assertions , this is the only case he has to back his claims .
" As the attacks intensify , Doctor Oz had his own squad investigate the source of the attacks and found they were all biotech industriousness shills , some with felony criminal record and foresighted histories of dubious propaganda activities targeting anti - GMO activists , " Adams continues .
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Basically , the great unwashed like Adams and Dr. Oz believe agricultural biotech leviathans like Monsanto – the world ’s leading producers of GMOs – give otherwise - lawful doctor to claim that the daytime talk show host is a no - dear quack . ( Like the medical residential district needed to bepaidto think that … )
In Adams ' perspective , if the " biotech mafia " was bold enough to go after America ’s favourite anti - GMO quack , they obviously would be up for skewer a Mexican chain restaurant .
If you just felt a unknown gust of wind blowing across your reminder , it was my exasperated suspiration after typing that last sentence .
What does Chipotle have to say about it?
Even the most absurd chore postulate some level of due diligence , so I achieve out to a spokesman at Chipotle , who politely , but shortly render this statement :
" We have find some of those cabal theory , but have n’t seen any evidence to support them . "
Weird . That ’s kind of what I said .
And what does a food historian think of the claims?
Is there any historical precession for something like this happening ?
" There are plenty of news report about faker in the account of the food industry – meat Proto-Indo European - makers selling Proto-Indo European they know are off ( spoilt ) , or after the industrial revolution food companies using adulterants – but I ca n’t consider of anything where you have a major intellectual nourishment corporation undercover sabotaging another one . That does n’t think it has n’t bechance , but I follow food for thought story fairly closely … and I ca n’t think of anything . "
Is there any possible way this could be true?
" This is an accusation … an assertion . This is n’t ' Deep Throat ' here , is it ? " Rachel said with a laugh , " Unless ( the original source ) or one of his associate is willing to do a bully hand more work going into this , it seems like we have good thing to do than pass on rumor that come along to have no foundation . Of of course , if he could issue forth up with names , and date , and what the tummy were actually doing – that would change thing . "
No one is saying large corporations , especially those who peddle GMOs , are free from sin . But such an enormous accusation , that does n’t even discuss theories on how the say perpetrators were able to contaminate so much meat in the first place , is wacky at best , and irresponsible at regretful .
Rachel summed it up , succinctly .
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" Before anyone takes it seriously , the effect of proof is on him – or anyone – to fall up with some real grounds . Before that , it ca n’t be believed . "
After all , if we corrupt into these rumors … have n’t the bioterrorists already won ?
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