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
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.
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
Hate to break it to you but your local supermarket and big grocery chain uses cow beef for ground beef also. Same stuff as McDonald's. You guys are perpetuating old info (circa 2012) that has to do with XF trim and LFTB.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 152 pts · 203d
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.
Egonallanon@feddit.uk · 104 pts · 203d
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
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 51 pts · 203d
In any case it’s despicable.
db2@lemmy.world · -15 pts · 203d
You misspelled "delicious". Not McDonald's specifically, that's Trump ass sucking garbage.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 18 pts · 203d
Yeah, I was about to say: if the Village People is the sound of US fascism, McDonald's is its flavor.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 203d
More its smell than its flavor. Though about half of us are pretty salty about the situation.
python@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 203d
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
WildPalmTree@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 203d
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.
python@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 203d
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
FragrantGarden@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 203d
Hate to break it to you but your local supermarket and big grocery chain uses cow beef for ground beef also. Same stuff as McDonald's. You guys are perpetuating old info (circa 2012) that has to do with XF trim and LFTB.
WildPalmTree@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
Will make sure to watch it. Sounds like something more people should do. Thanks!
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 203d
The other number should be the one that's mind boggling. We see the number "million" so much and don't grasp its scale.
tar@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 203d
cows aren't killed for burgers.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org · 2 pts · 202d
How so?
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
They’re killed for their crimes against humanity. We just don’t let them go to waste afterward.
tar@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 202d
burgers are made from less desirable parts. nowhere near the majority of a cow becomes ground beef.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 203d
Mcdonalds beef patties?
Or regular?
Coz they are thinner than a pickle slice these days
frostysauce@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d
1/10 lbs patties like they always were
fonix232@fedia.io · 9 pts · 203d
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 · 14 pts · 203d
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.
fonix232@fedia.io · 5 pts · 203d
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.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 4 pts · 203d
Oh yeah, those cows are party animals 🙂
Orygin@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 202d
How I imagine these cows partying
Wfh@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 203d
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.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 203d
Maybe in the US, in Australia they are 100% Angus beef
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 203d
That was my take also.
merci3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 203d
c/theydidthemath
And009@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 203d
Forgot this exists, no more wondering like op.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 203d
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 · 4 pts · 203d
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.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 202d
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
FragrantGarden@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 202d
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?
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 202d
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".
Crashumbc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
The burgers aren't made from the beef, they're made from all the left shit
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 50 pts · 203d
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 · 22 pts · 203d
It's one of those social media posts to get people who don't think for more than 10 milliseconds riled up.
QueenOfSquiggles@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 203d
I am enjoying the implication of this. Implying that one entire cow is turned into a single burger
BorgDrone@feddit.nl · 19 pts · 202d
The famous McDonalds quartertonner.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 202d
Almost choked on coffee from this
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 202d
When you look inside a cow, there's actually no burger to be found. There's definitely something fishy.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 202d
That’s where the McFish comes from.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
And a whole tree is ground down for one toothpick
Alsjemenou@lemy.nl · 25 pts · 203d
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 · 13 pts · 203d
1800km/24hr is 75kph or about 45mph. Imagine a unending line of cows traveling about 45mph into a giant meat grinder.
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
That is unintentionally a really funny mental image that I could totally see in something like Renn and Stimpy
teuniac_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 202d
It is completely depressing that we find this normal
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 203d
900,000 are slaughtered world wide every day or in the US alone?
Alsjemenou@lemy.nl · 6 pts · 202d
This is a world wide stat. The numbers for chickens are stratospheric. with 200 million chickens slaughtered per day.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 203d
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 · 11 pts · 203d
Was it a transgender cow?
PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
Misgendered Moolissa
whatsisface@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 203d
There's an informal definition for cow that can apply to either sex.
nevetsg@aussie.zone · 18 pts · 203d
They eat to grow, they grow to die
They die to be eaten at the hamburger fry
Cows well done
joshcodes@programming.dev · 7 pts · 203d
But on the horizon, surrounding the shoppers, came the deafening roar of chickens in choppers
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 202d
That’s about 8000-9000 cows per day. The US slaughters nearly 100K per day. So… mcd is fine.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 203d
Are there any cats and dogs around your local MacDonalds? If not, you should be worried!
ch00f@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
There are no rat problems; only rat opportunities.
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
THEY’RE EATING THE BURGERS!!!
Crashumbc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
They use pink slime for most of their meat.
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 203d
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 · 18 pts · 203d
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 · -5 pts · 203d
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.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
I mean, pornography (I'm going to assume it was typo) it's not a substance.
And substance means drugs. It's one of the definitions. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/substance
87Six@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 203d
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.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
So it's basically a grilled cheese on a bun?
That sounds delicious.
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 203d
Well, more like packaged bun of corn syrup and preservatives with a partially heated cheez(tm) product spread
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
Please. Stop. I can't get any more erect.
menas@lemmy.wtf · 8 pts · 202d
at some point, this person will do the same for chicken. That will be insane
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 202d
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.
Poojabber@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 202d
Now think about eating the chicken cloaca! Thats a 1 to 1 kill ratio buddy, and let me tell you, I can eat alot of those in a single sitting.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
"Who is making all of these chickens???" He muses, while eating his morning omlet...
Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 203d
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/02/fact-check-there-are-enough-cows-worldwide-to-supply-mcdonalds-beef-burgers.html
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 202d
On top of this, some restaurants are pretty upfront about it. If I remember correctly, Sonic burger patties are part beef, part mushroom.
EDIT: found it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sonic-blends-beef-and-mushrooms-for-more-eco-friendly-burger/
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 203d
Ham. Ya know, as in ham burgers. Duh!
hraegsvelmir@ani.social · 6 pts · 202d
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?
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
This episode of >!Pluribus!< is getting weird.
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
Damnit, don't give me a reason to eat McDonald's man
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
McDonald’s Man is Ronald. You’re thinking of Fountain Man.
scala@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 202d
And people complain about vegan food. At least you know what plants your eating. Unlike fastfood.
Azrael@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 202d
Does this person realize thay you can make more than one burger per cow?
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 202d
Because, as everyone knows, an entire cow goes into one hamburger.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 203d
It's McPeople!
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
Cow substitute. The vegans use it. 'I Can't Believe It's Not Bovine!'
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
"do you really think that there are that many cows in the world?"
Well, not now, there aren't.
iMastari@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 203d
Beef is murder...Sweet, sweet murder.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 202d
Their fries are cooked in beef tallow
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 202d
Used to be, they haven't done that since the 90s.
Think they use sunflower oil now.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 203d
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 203d
Sounds like an urban myth