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.
Fake moo
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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 23 hours 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.
tar@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
cows aren’t killed for burgers.
python@lemmy.world 22 hours 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
Rhaedas@fedia.io 21 hours 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.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Mcdonalds beef patties?
Or regular?
Coz they are thinner than a pickle slice these days
fonix232@fedia.io 22 hours 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.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 21 hours 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.
Wfh@lemmy.zip 18 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.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 12 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
FragrantGarden@lemmy.today 2 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.
merci3@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
c/theydidthemath
roserose56@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Are there any cats and dogs around your local MacDonalds? If not, you should be worried!
Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 7 hours ago
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.
apftwb@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
1800km/24hr is 75kph or about 45mph. Imagine a unending line of cows traveling about 45mph into a giant meat grinder.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
900,000 are slaughtered world wide every day or in the US alone?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 hours ago
How big does this guy make his burgers that he needs the meat of more than 1 whole cow to make one? 🤔
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 21 hours ago
It’s one of those social media post to get people who don’t think for more than 10 milliseconds riled up.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
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.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 21 hours ago
One time I asked a cow if he wanted to be slaughtered
Was it a transgender cow?
whatsisface@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
There’s an informal definition for cow that can apply to either sex.
PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Misgendered Moolissa
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
It’s funny they think there is a significant amount of beef in a McDonalds burger. It’s mostly bread, chemical cheese and mayo derivatives.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
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.
borderstolutenfolk@lemmy.wtf 11 hours ago
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.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
So it’s basically a grilled cheese on a bun?
That sounds delicious.
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Well, more like packaged bun of corn syrup and preservatives with a partially heated cheez™ product spread
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Ham. Ya know, as in _ham_burgers. Duh!
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
“do you really think that there are that many cows in the world?”
Well, not now, there aren’t.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It’s McPeople!
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Cow substitute. The vegans use it. ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Bovine!’
iMastari@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Beef is murder…Sweet, sweet murder.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
I believe that near me, there was something that happened where it was partly human meat. I’ve heard that a worker at the meat packing plant for maccas got fed up with working there, so he tied up all his coworkers and fed them into the meat grinder. I’m actually not too sure if it was the nuggets or the patties, but then again, that’s still fucked
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Sounds like an urban myth
QueenOfSquiggles@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I am enjoying the implication of this. Implying that one entire cow is turned into a single burger