How does Grass Fed Beef Reduce the Risk of E. coli?
Grass fed beef naturally contains less of the bad E. coli bacteria. Why? Because their diet is different from typical grain raised cattle. Grain raised cattle are raised on a pretty unnatural and unhealthy diet of grains, proteins and garbage. Their stomachs have to produce a lot more acids to break down these foods than cattle raised on grass or hay. We already know that E. coli lives naturally in the stomach and intestines, so this shouldn’t be a problem, right? Well, it does become a problem when the extra stomach acids come along. The E. coli in cattle like to live in a neutral pH environment, so at first the acid kills the E. coli, but soon the bacteria gets smarter, and start to become resistant to the stomach acids. In other words, the surviving bacteria mutate and become acid loving. This will soon become the dangerous type of E. coli, because if we ingest this type of bacteria, it won’t be killed off by our stomach acids. The healthy diet of natural American grass fed cattle e
