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Originally Posted by coaster

Cattle are raised, densely packed in pens, standing in their own feces for their entire lives and are often covered in it when they arrive at the slaughter houses.

Clearly you've never been to a Cattle ranch in Alberta. Yes feedlots are generally pretty packed places, but that is usually only for a month or two before the cow is slaughtered, not "Their entire lives".

They are fed chemical coctails and not an ounce of their native diet, grasses.

Again, you've clearly never seen a cattle ranch in Alberta, where cows graze on grasses, and are fed hey and grain in the winter. As for whether or not cows have a "Native Diet", they are a domesticated animal that has been selectively bread for hundreds of years. To say that they have a native diet is a little misleading.

Hormones and genetically modified corn as well as other not so safe additives speed up the growth process. Corn is not what cattle are meant to eat.

Yes, many cows are given growth hormones, as well as any number of vaccinations and antibiotics. As for the Corn, again, see my posts about Alberta cattle ranches. Rarely if ever are cows fed corn on the ranch. However it is pretty common for cows to eat Corn at the feed lots to fatten them up (though if I'm not mistaken this is mostly an American practice, cows in Alberta are for the most part finished on grain) before they are slaughtered.

As for the rest of your claims, I can't really comment as I don't have all the information.

Yes you make a few good points, but you are grossly misrepresenting several others.

All that being said, it doesn't take a genious to figure out that what McDonalds sells should not be regularly consumed. Not because of how the cows are raised, but because for the most part anything you get at McDonalds will be a heavy overdose of fat, sugar, and callories.