Just an idle thought. This is too speculative I think for GQ.
I saw footage of German workers dumping tons of individually-wrapped cucumbers into a dumpster. I presume that they will be composted at some sort of facility. But how could we ideally use several thousand tons of tainted vegetables?
Assume the rules say the vegetables cannot be allowed in any human food product.
I would presume they could (probably should) be used as animal feed. Would they have any value as a bio-fuel?
You can use old cooking/fryer oil as biodiesel, so something like corn could be processed into cooking oil.
It just seems the stuff must have some value for something.
How high a heat does it take to kill that strain? Really, the only thing I can think to do is compost it all; the heat in composting is high enough to kill many infectious bacteria. Then the compost can be used as, y’know, compost.
Is this strain infectious to livestock? If so, I wouldn’t want to kill any piggies by making them sick with the stuff.
Besides the issue of killing piggies 
, you don’t want to infect even more mammals who will then become pathogenic E. coli producing machines. Pathogens in domestic animals have a way of finding their way back to the human population, sometimes after having gone through a selective sweep for antibiotic resistance, depending on the farming practices. I’m not sure about this strain of E. coli and which species it affects (other strains cause problems in cattle and swine and increase mortality among young stock), but with other pathogens, sometimes even a species (or an individual) which is not terribly susceptible to the pathogen can become an asymptomatic carrier/reservoir for the infection and shed it for months, even years.