And yet, here we are.

https://www.marlerblog.com/legal-cases/a-little-cargill-hist...

While I might quibble with the "very", beef is a rare vector for e. coli infection, even based on this limited outbreak list: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreaks.html To some degree it makes sense, because people have been conditioned to treat meat as a disease vector and tend to treat it more carefully than greens and other plant products.

Also, highlighting a single Cargill outbreak says nothing either way about the correctness of "very rare".

9 cases over a 20 year period. They actually had a death which is more than I expected.

That said, I believe E Coli typically gets on plants because cow waste contaminates water used for irrigation, so poorly managed beef and dairy production are the root cause.