Have you ever seen how a cow is treated and killed before being butchered...I won't go into detail but it is ugly. A steer is a living breathing thing and they show fear knowing they are about to die....and they know....they can smell it. This is no B.S. It does not matter if you eat at McD's or any other place that serves beef...still the same. Here in the US we are more humane about kill in other places not so....some animals are butchered while they are still alive inorder to drain the blood from the meat....gross. I avoid meat as much as possible and rarely have beef. However our bodies require some protien that is found in meat. Fast food and poorly prepaired foods are killing us. A health care crisis in the country should be obesity...we need to reform our eating habits before we do the health care system. This is my say.