"It's vertically integrated, from farm to fork, " says Mike Martin of Cargill.

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And that complexity only increases as they migrate from farm to fork.

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Moving food from farm to fork is a nightmare.

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Because organic foods are often exempt from farm-to-fork policies in the postmodern Euro-Zeitgeist, the source of the outbreak could not be readily identified.

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