Daily Harvest's toxic year: How the $1 billion food startup's quest for a new ingredient sent customers to the ER

The CEO speaks for the first time about the tara flour that sickened hundreds, led to lawsuits, and revealed big problems in U.S. food safety. The emails first came in a trickle, then an avalanche. Last summer, Rachel Drori, founder and CEO of the vegan food-subscription company Daily Harvest, fielded 470 messages from customers describing the horrific symptoms they experienced after eating the brand’s latest product, French Lentil + Leek Crumbles—a kind of ground-beef substitute that the co...