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Taco Bell is a fast-food chain where customers can purchase burritos and fries, and whose ingredients have been investigated for parasitic outbreaks.

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Why it worked

The video leverages a concerning public health issue related to a popular fast-food chain to create a sense of urgency and disgust, prompting viewers to share the information and avoid the establishment.

Summary

The video discusses a parasitic outbreak linked to Cyclospora, which causes explosive diarrhea, affecting Taco Bell's ingredients. It highlights past incidents and criticizes the food handling practices, urging viewers to stop eating at Taco Bell.

Structure

1Breaking news about Taco Bell
2Parasitic outbreak linked to Cyclospora
3Past incident with green onions
4Criticism of food handling practices

Original caption

Taco Bell pulled menu items because of parasite outbreak #creatorsearchinsights #tiktok #america #tacobell #food

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Product placement

Taco Bell ACTS - it is a fast-food chain whose ingredients are being investigated. Removing it would change the video's topic. Cyclospora ACTS - it is a parasite causing illness. Removing it would change the video's topic.

Call to action

Do yourself a favor and stop eating at that place what you crave. It is disgusting, it is nasty. Stop eating at Taco Bell.

On-screen text

Taco Bell has pulled select produce ingredients from several locations in response to a growing parasitic outbreak linked to Cyclospora, which health officials report causes "explosive" diarrhea. Affected regions have removed items like lettuce, cilantro, onion, pico de gallo, and guacamole while investigations continue. Taco Bell under fire Cyclospora (Cyclospora cayetanensis) is a microscopic, single-celled parasite that causes an intestinal illness known as cyclosporiasis. People become infected by ingesting food or water contaminated with infected human feces. U.S. Food and ... +1 Taco Bell under fire

Transcript

Breaking news. Don't be eating Taco Bell, Cyclospora and Cyclosporiasis has now been found in human beings with explosive diarrhea. Check out here folks, look. Don't be eating Taco Bell period, number one. 20 years ago, Taco Bell took green onions off the menu because they were finding parasites on the green onions. Now you know how this is transmitted to human beings, okay? They are not letting the people working the fields have a break to go to the bathroom. So they're defecating and urinating in the fields while harvesting. So then, if they don't wash the feces and the urine off of the food before we eat it, then you get this. Folks, do yourself a favor and stop eating at that place what you crave. It is disgusting, it is nasty. Stop eating at Taco Bell.