I don't know a thing about the cattle industry, and from the sound of your comment, it's probably just as well I'm ignorant of it. I eat very little red meat (I'm not a vegetarian; red meat doesn't agree with my system since I turned 50 or so) so I tend to not frequent McDonalds except for the occasional order of fries when I'm traveling.
"Beef bung" just has an unpleasant ring to it...
just food for thought
from wikipedia..
“A bung is truncated cylindrical or conical closure to seal a container, such as a bottle, tube or barrel. Unlike a lid which encloses a container from the outside without displacing the..”
now, given the fact the animal is not a bottle, tube or barrel, it is a container for digested bio mass. Yep, mAss.
Its been redefined and some call it a ***Big Mac****, mmmm mmmmm mmmm