Food chain?
The title suggests that islamists would poison the grass which would poison the cows and thus the steaks would be poisoned?
You know what those journo’s do to squeeze words into a shortest possible phrase to make a headline. Frequently, it does not work, as you have seen in this article.:-)
with e coli, the food need not be the means of delivery, and could throw off the investigation for a long time as investigators focus on the obvious and past experience with raw vegetables
deliberate contamination of containers, eating implements, shopping carts or ? could work just as effectively, as e coli can go human-to-human once introduced
Might explain why 70% of the victims of this virulent new pathogen are young and middle-age women, who usually do the shopping and preparing, or why certain female restaurant patrons were infected and others not