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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Egonallanon@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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 even bigger.

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  • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In any case it’s despicable.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You misspelled “delicious”. Not McDonald’s specifically, that’s Trump ass sucking garbage.

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      • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah, I was about to say: if the Village People is the sound of US fascism, McDonalds’s is its flavor.

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  • python@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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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    • WildPalmTree@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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      • python@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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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  • tar@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    cows aren’t killed for burgers.

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    • uniquethrowagay@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How so?

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The other number should be the one that's mind boggling. We see the number "million" so much and don't grasp its scale.

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• Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mcdonalds beef patties?

  Or regular?

  Coz they are thinner than a pickle slice these days

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• fonix232@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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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  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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, hundred of millions of burgers doesn’t deplete the country of cattle heads. It was an remark about orders of magnitude.

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    • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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      • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        1600 parties per cow

        Oh yeah, those cows are party animals 🙂

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  • Wfh@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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    • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That was my take also.

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• Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • FragrantGarden@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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    • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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• merci3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  c/theydidthemath

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