No of course you don't sound heartless, I'm with you, just teasing you and Katie!!
True about the steer (it's a bullock) in the Guninness though!)
These animal rights people can be so extreme. We have problems with mink here which have been 'set free', they are nasty creatures. Personally I can't see the difference between rearing animals for meat/milk or fur as long as good husbandry is followed. I'd be one of the last people on the planet to mistreat an animal but I do find there's such a lot of ingnorance and misinformation about.
I remember having a real lecture from someone who thought we were dreadful for rearing our own lambs for our own consumption ( slaughtered here, and I was there - very quiet, peaceful and they were not afraid, nor were the others who weren't due to be killed but were together. Keeping them in a small flock keeps them happy.) She turned on her heel and stalked away, wearing leather shoes!! I later saw her in a cafe eating cheese on toast! I wonder if she knows now how many bullcalves are killed at birth so we can drink milk, or if she's heard the cows and calves crying for each other for days when they are seperated so that we can drink milk.
Hmm, pehaps we'd better not go there!!