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A conspiracy theory about Chipotle is gaining steam

A recent norovirus outbreak has revived a Chipotle conspiracy theory.

Chipotle's stock has plummeted in the past week after a norovirus outbreak has cast doubt on the chain's nascent recovery.

The outbreak, which sickened more than 100 customers in Virginia, according to reports, has also renewed speculation about a conspiracy theory that Chipotle is the target of corporate sabotage.

The theory first emerged after the 2015 E. coli outbreak tied to Chipotle restaurants in 14 states.

It claims that parties shorting Chipotle's stock - meaning they stand to gain financially when the chain's shares plummet - orchestrated the illness outbreaks by planting harmful bacteria in Chipotle restaurants.

"Chipotle short-sellers saw their ambitions rewarded with $55 million in less than one day, thanks to this most recent incident,"
Aaron Allen, a principal at the restaurant-consulting firm Aaron Allen & Associates, wrote on Monday in a LinkedIn post that was shared by Bloomberg.

"Though it might seem far-fetched, there are some facts that suggest the near-endless food safety scandals plaguing Chipotle belie something more sinister than simple misfortune."

He pointed to past incidents of companies targeted in bizarre plots, including one in 2005 in which a woman planted a severed finger of her husband's coworker in a cup of Wendy's chili. She was eventually sentenced to nine years in prison.

Allen also raised questions about some of the details surrounding Chipotle's outbreaks.

He said 60% of outbreaks took place between December and May, while Chipotle's were from August to December 2015 and, most recently, in July 2017.

He also said Chipotle had four times as many norovirus outbreaks expected for a chain its size, and that each incident of foodborne illness sickened far more people than is common.


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Even before the latest norovirus scare, it was somewhat unprecedented for so many illness outbreaks to be linked to a single chain.

That anomaly gave rise to the corporate-sabotage theory two years ago.

"Chipotle's E. coli outbreaks are not random chance," said an article published in late 2015 on the website Natural News.

"They are the result of the biotech industry unleashing bioterrorism attacks against the only fast food company that has publicly denounced GMOs."


The article accused the biotech industry of planting E. coli in Chipotle's food in a "malicious attempt to destroy both the reputation and finances of the Chipotle food chain."

It was shared thousands of times on social media, even though there was no evidence to back up the claims.

But even some scientists were stumped by anomalies surrounding Chipotle's illness outbreaks.

For example, Chipotle conducted hundreds of tests on its food and preparation surfaces and never identified a source of the E. coli outbreak. That's somewhat unusual.

In five similar high-profile cases of major foodborne-illness outbreaks over the past couple of decades, the source was determined relatively quickly, according to Credit Suisse.


A Chipotle spokesman, Chris Arnold, told Bloomberg the company didn't believe in the conspiracy theories and "did not see any evidence to support them."

In the aftermath of the E. coli outbreak, the company implemented strict guidelines for food preparation and cooking, aiming to improve safety.

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