Caroline Gleich

Seven thousand people are sick from a parasite in lettuce in thirty-four states and more than a hundred forty have been hospitalized. On Sunday the FDA said the sample that pointed to the supplier was a false positive, so the search for the source is close to starting over.

I am not saying anyone faked a lab result. I have no evidence of that. What I am saying is that the parent company of that supplier gave one million dollars to the super PAC supporting the president, less than a week after the FDA announced it would delay the food traceability rule. That rule would have required companies handling leafy greens to keep digital records of where food came from and where it went, so investigators could trace an outbreak fast. It is now pushed to 2028.

My ask to the U.S. FDA is to release the lab documentation. Show the original result, the re-review protocol, who ordered it, and when. If the science is solid, that record settles it in an afternoon.

This is the same pattern I watch every day with public lands and clean air. Money goes in, protections come out, and regular people pay the cost. Usually the cost is a canyon or a watershed. This time it is people in hospital beds.

Save this and send it to someone who eats food. Follow for more advocacy and outdoor adventure, which is what I really want to be thinking and posting about and not a parasite that causes explosive diarrhea.

Dreaming of some big days in the high mountains. Our summer alpine ridge scrambling season always feels so short! Long days in the alpine, whether on skis or on foot, give me life and keep me going for the advocacy challenges. I’m so grateful for protected public lands and access to the outdoors. Where are you stoked to go this summer?

That is a Republican official telling the White House to back off and let states run safe, free, and fair elections. She is right.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is threatening local election officials with prison time if they do not hand over voter data and run their rolls through a federal database. A judge already blocked that database because it violates voter privacy and can wrongly kick eligible people off the rolls. Threatening to jail the people who run our elections is not how a free country works.

Do not let anyone scare you or make you think your vote does not count. It counts.

Make your plan now. Go to vote.org, double check your registration, and vote early this November. Vote.

My statement regarding election security:

On July 13, they cut Bears Ears and Grand Staircase by nearly 3 million acres, about 90% of both, and reopened them to mining.
Bears Ears was the first monument five Tribal Nations fought for and won together. Protections were stripped with zero tribal consultation.
This was never about local control. It’s about the minerals under the land. And if they can do it here, your public lands are next. Link in comments to take action