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?
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.
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
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
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.
Will make sure to watch it. Sounds like something more people should do. Thanks!
cows aren't killed for burgers.
How so?
They’re killed for their crimes against humanity. We just don’t let them go to waste afterward.
burgers are made from less desirable parts. nowhere near the majority of a cow becomes ground beef.
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
1/10 lbs patties like they always were
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.
Oh yeah, those cows are party animals 🙂
How I imagine these cows partying
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.
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.
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
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".
The burgers aren't made from the beef, they're made from all the left shit
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.
I am enjoying the implication of this. Implying that one entire cow is turned into a single burger
The famous McDonalds quartertonner.
Almost choked on coffee from this
When you look inside a cow, there's actually no burger to be found. There's definitely something fishy.
That’s where the McFish comes from.
And a whole tree is ground down for one toothpick
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.
That is unintentionally a really funny mental image that I could totally see in something like Renn and Stimpy
It is completely depressing that we find this normal
900,000 are slaughtered world wide every day or in the US alone?
This is a world wide stat. The numbers for chickens are stratospheric. with 200 million chickens slaughtered per 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.
Was it a transgender cow?
Misgendered Moolissa
There's an informal definition for cow that can apply to either sex.
They eat to grow, they grow to die
They die to be eaten at the hamburger fry
Cows well done
But on the horizon, surrounding the shoppers, came the deafening roar of chickens in choppers
That’s about 8000-9000 cows per day. The US slaughters nearly 100K per day. So… mcd is fine.
Are there any cats and dogs around your local MacDonalds? If not, you should be worried!
There are no rat problems; only rat opportunities.
THEY’RE EATING THE BURGERS!!!
They use pink slime for most of their meat.
at some point, this person will do the same for chicken. That will be insane
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.
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.
"Who is making all of these chickens???" He muses, while eating his morning omlet...
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
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.
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(tm) product spread
Please. Stop. I can't get any more erect.
Ham. Ya know, as in ham burgers. Duh!
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/02/fact-check-there-are-enough-cows-worldwide-to-supply-mcdonalds-beef-burgers.html
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/
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?
This episode of >!Pluribus!< is getting weird.
Damnit, don't give me a reason to eat McDonald's man
McDonald’s Man is Ronald. You’re thinking of Fountain Man.
Because, as everyone knows, an entire cow goes into one hamburger.
It's McPeople!
Does this person realize thay you can make more than one burger per cow?
And people complain about vegan food. At least you know what plants your eating. Unlike fastfood.
Cow substitute. The vegans use it. 'I Can't Believe It's Not Bovine!'
"do you really think that there are that many cows in the world?"
Well, not now, there aren't.
Beef is murder...Sweet, sweet murder.
Their fries are cooked in beef tallow
Used to be, they haven't done that since the 90s.
Think they use sunflower oil now.
Sounds like an urban myth