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[–] 84 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

6.5 million burgers

millions of cows

I'm not an expert on the meat industry by any means but I'm pretty sure you're getting more than three or four burgers from a single cow

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  • [–] 46 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    a cow gives about 500 pounds of ground beef. which is 2000 0.25 pound patties!

    that's 3250 cows.

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  • [–] 77 points 11 months ago*
    [–] 61 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Americans really struggle with scale

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  • [–] 60 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Industrial agriculture denialism is a new one

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    It makes sense 'cause they're already prone to denying the holocaust and centristly trying to go "well I'm sure the truth's somewhere between 0 and # million'. And since it's basically the same mode of production to do it and they can't imagine society letting it happen for some reason, they'll just deny it.

    Edit: Also does first-world soy-conservative thing of taking an awful thing that's happening to someone else and flipping it to actually be about themselves instead, i.e. meat-eaters are being tricked into eating whatever rather than millions of creatures are being converted into food stuffs.

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  • [–] 54 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Some people are so deeply removed from agriculture that they never even think about where their food comes from.

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  • [–] 51 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    People underestimate just how many animals are bred for meat. I often wonder what impact it would have on the environment if humans suddenly disappeared, and all these farm animals escaped.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I often wonder what impact it would have on the environment if humans suddenly disappeared

    Probably some significant environmental fallout from that alone as a final legacy of humanity... maybe some nuclear accidents if you time it right

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    How automated are the fail saves in these reactors really? I would assume a good number of them would eventually melt down and without anyone there to stop that from going on, you're looking at a bunch of Chernobyls, continuously spewing out irradiated particles.

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  • [–] 46 points 11 months ago

    If you can look up the burgers per day figure, why can't you look up the other figures that would answer your question?

    Similarly, if you take the 6.5 million figure at face value, why can't you take the other related figures at face value?

    So fucking sick of anti-intellectualism. I fought hard to get out of the peasant world and peasant mindset but it's going mainstream! This is why I blocked the dunk tank lol.

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  • [–] 46 points 11 months ago

    tfw youve never seen a cow irl.

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  • [–] 41 points 11 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    That's only 72 burgers per cattle to supply McDonalds, and there's almost certainly much more than 72 burgers woth of meat in a cow.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    according to my sloppy sleuthin, a beef cow provides 500lbs of dressed beef. mcdonalds patties are 1.5oz precooked weight. if all produced into ground beef, each cow therefore provides mcd's 5330 burger patties (likely more with the fillers they use e.g. cellulose gel but there's no data available on their filler%)

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Carnists turn a blind eye to CAFO torture, mass slaughter, while completely destroying the environment for something that gives them heart disease while making fun of vegans...

    But where do the cows come from?

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  • [–] 38 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    even if you do the math...

    calculate(NumCows * Bunch)

    i just ran these calculations through my computer and, not only did it not display 6.5 million, i got several errors referring to a syntax (SIN TAX????).

    pretty sure this one goes all the way to the top. ✝️🛐

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Is this a backdoor Holocaust denial thing?

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    They do call that one agricultural area of California "Cowschwitz"

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago

    Soylent Green BigMac is people!!! not-built-for-this

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    If burger can't stretch across globe, then how can we all eat burger?

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This logic could be applied to anything.

    Cars burn millions of gallons of gas.

    I don't understand how gas is produced.

    What are they making this "gas" out of?

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