Are there any cats and dogs around your local MacDonalds? If not, you should be worried!
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.
1800km/24hr is 75kph or about 45mph. Imagine a unending line of cows traveling about 45mph into a giant meat grinder.
900,000 are slaughtered world wide every day or in the US alone?
They eat to grow, they grow to die
They die to be eaten at the hamburger fry
Cows well doneBut on the horizon, surrounding the shoppers, came the deafening roar of chickens in choppers
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.
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
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
cows aren’t killed for burgers.
In any case it’s despicable.
You misspelled “delicious”. Not McDonald’s specifically, that’s Trump ass sucking garbage.
Yeah, I was about to say: if the Village People is the sound of US fascism, McDonald’s is its flavor.
More its smell than its flavor. Though about half of us are pretty salty about the situation.
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
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
Will make sure to watch it. Sounds like something more people should do. Thanks!
The other number should be the one that’s mind boggling. We see the number “million” so much and don’t grasp its scale.
Mcdonalds beef patties?
Or regular?
Coz they are thinner than a pickle slice these days
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.
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.
1600 parties per cow
Oh yeah, those cows are party animals 🙂
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.
Maybe in the US, in Australia they are 100% Angus beef
That was my take also.
c/theydidthemath
Forgot this exists, no more wondering like op.
Ham. Ya know, as in ham burgers. Duh!
“do you really think that there are that many cows in the world?”
Well, not now, there aren’t.
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.
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.
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
So it’s basically a grilled cheese on a bun?
That sounds delicious.
Well, more like packaged bun of corn syrup and preservatives with a partially heated cheez™ product spread
Please. Stop. I can’t get any more erect.
How big does this guy make his burgers that he needs the meat of more than 1 whole cow to make one? 🤔
It’s one of those social media posts to get people who don’t think for more than 10 milliseconds riled up.
It’s McPeople!
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.
One time I asked a cow if he wanted to be slaughtered
Was it a transgender cow?
There’s an informal definition for cow that can apply to either sex.
Misgendered Moolissa
Cow substitute. The vegans use it. ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Bovine!’
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
Edit: I just searched it up a few times and now I’m not even sure if it’s real lol, maybe it’s a myth
Beef is murder…Sweet, sweet murder.
