The problem with eating meat in this country is caused by the poisoning of the animals.  Most animals are meant to eat their natural diets, but big farm and agribusiness figured out a way to make a cow that take 4 to 5 years of grazing to become fully grown in 12 to 14 months. 

The animals are fed corn and soy which makes them very ill. They put antibiotics right in their feed to keep them well enough to eat and grow fat very fast. Many times they must take the sick animals out of the feed stock to prevent their death.  Guess what they do with the sick animals?  They let them graze on grass for a month or two, and they are back to health.  There is also the practice on regularly injecting these cows with a bovine growth hormone derived from genetically modified ingredients.  This hormones is then past on to the consumer through meat, milk and cheese.  U.S. meat products contain cholesterol because the animals are deprived of their natural diet and force fed feed that makes them ill.  This is also where the e-coli epidemic is coming from.  The cattle fed this unnatural concoction poisons their gut, and passes this e-coli bacteria through their intestines out onto the ground. It seeps into the ground water and pollutes near by crops (such as in the spinach problem).  Now, think about the uses for cow manure in the past...  We use to buy it from our farmers and till it into the soil of our gardens.  I wouldn't do that now unless you can verify your farmers grass fed their cattle.  This is all done in the name of profit and to provide cheap meat for consumers.  Cheap in this case means not fit to eat.

The cholesterol problem is not from eating red meat.  The problem is from eating poisoned red meat produced in the U.S.

The same is also true for poultry and pork.