All animals have E. coli or its equivalent in their digestive tracts to break down food, but the worst kinds are killed as the food moves through the system. It isn’t until you radically alter the diet that these problems occur.

If you grass feed before slaughter you can prevent the problem in the meat, but it will still be in the manure while you are grain feeding, and that can contaminate the ground water, which is probably what happened in the lettuce and spinach outbreaks.

And yet people marvel that Chinese imports are poisoned. Look at what we do to our OWN food!!!

If/when it ever comes down to us growing our own food to survive, I’m going to have to be a hunter-gatherer, ’cause while I can field-dress a deer (even though I can’t kill it), I can’t grow ANYTHING. I’ve killed cactus. We probably need to start planning who’s going to cover what parts of the communal food supply process, once the entire country collapses and so forth — I’ll clean, butcher & cook the food/game, but don’t look at me to grow diddly-squat.