Calif. Farm Sues Taco Bell for Libel

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

Calif. Farm Sues Taco Bell for Libel

Friday March 23, 5:23 AM EDT

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The Southern California farm that grew the green onions that were first linked to and then cleared in last year's E. coli outbreak has filed a libel lawsuit against Taco Bell Corp.

Boskovich Farms, Inc. filed the lawsuit last week in Orange County Superior Court, alleging Taco Bell continued to link its green onions to the December outbreak that sickened more than 70 people in the Northeast despite knowing the produce was not contaminated.

"Taco Bell engaged in an irresponsible and intentional crusade to save its own brand at the expense of an innocent supplier," Thomas Girardi, an attorney for Oxnard-based Boskovich Farms, told the Los Angeles Times.

The false connection between the farm and the fast food chain's E. coli problem has cost Boskovich "millions of dollars of business," Girardi said.

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[noonwitch]

1. I'm not eating at Taco Bell again until they put green onions back on their food!

They should have been able to find a new supplier by now. I miss the onions in the food.

[Maat]

2. I second that!

I asked for them the other day, and they dragged out the 'we no longer carry them' line. Those green onions were DELICIOUS in a bean burrito (and in a side of rice).