Why Is Red Meat ... Red?

When you cut into a nice, juicy steak what's all that liquid that pours out? Is it blood? It looks like blood. ...it's not blood.

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Sources:
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/birds/ostrich-meat1.htm
http://www.wiley.com/college/pratt/0471393878/instructor/structure/myoglobin_hemoglobin/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/dining/04curi.html?_r=0
http://www.wiley.com/college/boyer/0470003790/structure/HbMb/mbhb_intro.htm