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[โ€“] 150 points 9 months ago (30 children)

It would be insightful if the math checked out.

You can get roughly 1600 beef patties out of one cow. Your 6.5M burgers a day use up 125,937 cows per month and there's 95M cattle in the US.

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  • [โ€“] 100 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Honestly mind boggling that 125 thousand cows are slaughtered each month just to support maccas. Once you add various other places selling beef burgers and other beef cuts and I imagine the number can get a lot bigger

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  • [โ€“] 23 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Most fast food burgers are made from depleted milk cows, so there's actually little overlap with places that sell beef from dedicated meat cows

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I have no idea if this is true but it is so genious and calculating that if it is not, i commend you. Wow. You can still call it American (or whatever country you are in) beef and not lie, but it is such shit quality and at such a low price that it has never occured to people. Much like "genuine leather". Humanity amazes me.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, if everyone stopped eating at McDonald's, supermarket beef wouldn't actually get cheaper, but dog food would. There are a thousand more tricks and shortcuts like that in the animal industry - I'd really recommend watching Dominion, as it shows quite a few more of those

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  • [โ€“] 50 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    In any case itโ€™s despicable.

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  • [+] -8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You misspelled "delicious". Not McDonald's specifically, that's Trump ass sucking garbage.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

    That count is way off.

    An average cow is 600kg, and yields 36-48% in pure meat, so around 250kg.

    McDonald's standard patty is 45g, while larger patties - say, like, the Quarter Pounder - go up to 120g.

    Presuming 2/3 of all burgers per cow are regular, and 1/3 are Quarter Pounder size, then we have a simple formula to solve:

    2x*0.045kg + x*0.120kg = 250kg

    That makes X approximately 1190, so the total number of burgers is ~3570, over double of your calculations.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    1600 patties per cow is a value I've heard since I was a kid in the 70s. It wasn't McD specifically. Maybe the cows have grown fatter or the patties smaller over the decades.

    Anyway, my point was, hundreds of millions of burgers doesn't deplete the country of cattle heads. It was an remark about orders of magnitude.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'd say that McD's patties are super small. Your average patty will be around 6-8oz, so 170-230g, which is much closer to your initial number of 1600 parties per cow.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Bold of you to assume McD's patties are pure meat. Probably half the weight is extra fat and pink slime, so you can easily double that.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    McDonald's gets the very last stage of leftover beef from the carcass. If they don't buy it, it goes to things like animal feed.

    I don't know how much McDonald's-grade beef is on a cow, but I'm guessing the real numbers are how much non-McDonald's beef people are eating, divided by the average weight of cows

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    So wrong here. They grind trimmings, the same trimmings that are ground into ground beef that sits in the counters of your local retailer. I sell this shit and can guarantee you the McDonald's system is not my last option, those trimmings all make it into the food supply. Also you can't feed cow parts to food animals ,it's a BSE risk.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Looks like McDonald's changed their sourcing about 10 years ago. Now they use trimmings as you said; previously they used pink slime.

    For the record, I never said (nor implied) that it would be fed to food animals. I was thinking more like dog food

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago

    They used up to 7% LFTB back in the day. It looked nothing like the emulsified chicken pictured in the articles. It is a wholesome product yet not one I would choose to put in my ground beef due to the amount of connective tissue. You're close to the source, have any questions you'd like honest answers for?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago

    There's a whole bunch of beef that's not edible by USDA standards, and that's what gets made into dog food. I used to date somebody that worked at a glass-bottle dairy, and they'd eat it anyways, but it was clearly marked on the package "not for human consumption".

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  • [โ€“] 49 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    How big does this guy make his burgers that he needs the meat of more than 1 whole cow to make one? ๐Ÿค”

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  • [โ€“] 42 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I am enjoying the implication of this. Implying that one entire cow is turned into a single burger

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  • [โ€“] 25 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    About 900,000 cows are slaughtered every day. If every cow was 2 meters long, and they all walked right behind each other, this line of cows would stretch for 1800 kilometers. This represents the number of cows slaughtered every day.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    1800km/24hr is 75kph or about 45mph. Imagine a unending line of cows traveling about 45mph into a giant meat grinder.

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 9 months ago

    Thatโ€™s about 8000-9000 cows per day. The US slaughters nearly 100K per day. Soโ€ฆ mcd is fine.

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  • [โ€“] 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    One time I asked a cow if he wanted to be slaughtered and chopped into meat to be cooked and sold by McDonalds.

    He didn't ever answer me. Probably in account of the fact that cows don't speak english. It's just as well anyways. It's not like it would have changed anything. It's just cows opinion. It's a moo point.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Are there any cats and dogs around your local MacDonalds? If not, you should be worried!

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    at some point, this person will do the same for chicken. That will be insane

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You can get a lot of hamburgers from a cow, but only two breasts from a chicken.

    That means for every two chicken breasts you eat, one chicken dies.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 9 months ago

    Ham. Ya know, as in ham burgers. Duh!

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  • [โ€“] 18 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They eat to grow, they grow to die
    They die to be eaten at the hamburger fry
    Cows well done

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago

    It's McPeople!

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago

    And people complain about vegan food. At least you know what plants your eating. Unlike fastfood.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago

    Because, as everyone knows, an entire cow goes into one hamburger.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago

    Does this person realize thay you can make more than one burger per cow?

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Well, clearly, you grind up beef chuck to make burgers, Chuck is a diminutive form of Charlie, ergo the libs at McDonald's have been supplementing their burgers with the cultivated remains of Charlie Kirk. The fake moo is all a plan to make everyone go woke by tricking them into cannibalism. Where's my poster board and red string?

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Itโ€™s funny they think there is a significant amount of beef in a McDonalds burger. Itโ€™s mostly bread, chemical cheese and mayo derivatives.

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  • [โ€“] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Not to be that guy... but all cheese is chemical. You're chemicals. EVERYTHING IS CHEMICALS. Even Full Metal Alchemist got that.

    I'm just so tired of misinformation, implying that one cheese that's 100% milk is cheese, but another cheese made with that same cheese plus emulsifiers and preservatives is "THE CHEMICALS." Call it processed, sure. But to imply you somehow have cheese that's not chemicals... is just, fundamentally wrong.

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  • [โ€“] -5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    In colloquial language, "chemicals" is fine IMO. It's clear from context that it's not H2O. Just like substance abuse is only about drugs, not cornography.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago

    It's not fine. "Chemicals" has been used as a blanket term for so long that your average guy thinks chemicals are an issue, but has no idea what the fuck falls under truly dangerous chemicals.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    So it's basically a grilled cheese on a bun?

    That sounds delicious.

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  • Cow substitute. The vegans use it. 'I Can't Believe It's Not Bovine!'

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago

    "do you really think that there are that many cows in the world?"

    Well, not now, there aren't.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago

    Beef is murder...Sweet, sweet murder.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Their fries are cooked in beef tallow

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