Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak

Taylor Farms donated over $3.6 million to conservative groups from 2020 to 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC. Simultaneously, the company faced a cyclospora outbreak causing explosive diarrhea. Taylor Farms initially claimed the FDA apologized for a false positive identification of its products as the source. However, the company later deleted these social media statements following a federal government response and subsequent public relations damage control described by agriculture journalists.