German E. Coli

I don't want to be a total Debbie Downer over here, but essentially we can blame industrial meat production for this latest outbreak of E. Coli. I am fascinated at how every single article mentions the fact that E. Coli is a bacteria found in mammals but never discloses how or why it ends up on a cucumber. Well, let me break it to you like this- they spray the crap from the animals onto the vegetables as fertilizer.

Still hungry for dinner?

But here is the kicker- the E. Coli only exists because of the diet these animals are getting. First off they are highly immune compromised because of their unnatural living and breeding situation. Second, they are being fed corn. They don't want to eat corn. Cows, chickens and most livestock want to eat grass; that is what their digestive system was designed to consume. So when they started to be fed corn, their immune systems suffered and E. Coli was spawned. Why corn you ask? It's cheap.

So if we all cut back on meat the industry would suffer, scale back and ideally, ultimately, begin to raise their livestock as nature intended.