The people with all this sympathy for cattle have never spent much time around them.
Or pigs. I was never so ready to kill something as when it was finally sausage season. Chased those danged things all over the county every year!
Better yet, Ironjack, if you stun the steer with a
sledge hammer or a 22 cal bullet to the crop in the
middle of the forehead you can hang him by the hind
legs, cut his throat and let the heart pump the blood
out on the ground. That way you get 85% of the blood
out of the carcass instead of just 15%.
I worked in the University slaughter house when I
was a college punk........