That poor thing looks horrible, no sense in eating an obviously sick animal. Why even risk it??

Just the picture triggered my gag reflex.

Please do Not eat this one. If you have ever seen a mobile farm slaughter service preformed? They will stun/shoot the animal first <brain>. ASAP they will bleed out the animal. This is a Very important process, blood removal.
This process of blood removal goes back to Biblical Times!! The benefits where probably both physical & spiritual.
Mark June, can you add anything too this practice?
IMHO, you are way better off too eat healthy and processed correctly food!!!

I honestly thought the OP was being glib about his inquiry!
I hope so.

If you guys decide not to eat it I'll take it. I mean if your looking to deal!

some of the best steaks I ever had came from a 600-700 pound steer that was growing well and hung it's self on a gate after morning feeding and before early afternoon it was single digits that day. It was my neighbors steer. he gutted and hung it head down 3 days to bleed but it didn't much. there was still a lot of blood in the meat.

it certainly isn't ideal but it isn't necessarily a reason to scrap a cow/steer without some other reason also.

when I put one down , yes I bleed it.

just saying it isn't completely nessecary just a best practice

I used a Milk cow once for bait station and it had been given shots nothing touched it all winter