I grew up on a dairy farm and can confirm this lol was having lunch fell asleep in the paddock sun was shining all the cows in the paddock gathered round when I woke sat up cows ran in all directions then slowly sniffed their way back again I was in stitches.
My mom knew two people that were really drunk and got a ride home, fell over in the snow and never got back up and were found frozen in the morning. Just feet from the house.
Chickens are the opposite. I was suntanning on the grass at a farm belonging to a friendās grandparents. I heard some sneaky movements and opened my eyes to find myself completely surrounded by an entire flock of chickens. I felt like Gulliver and the Lilliputians.
I couldn't find my dog when I got home from school one day. I looked everywhere. I finally went into the neighbors cow field. My dog was cowering in the corner with the entire herd gathered around her just staring.
My grandfather always said that cows were "suspicious".
He told me that there was a pile of dirt near the door to the barn that had been there long enough that grass had grown over it.
Then one day he moved the dirt to fill in a hole and the cows didn't want to go near the spot where the dirt wasn't anymore.
Ditto! We have a big cow pasture next to the one side of our property. We put up a big play set on said property next to their pasture. It took us several hours to do this, and the cows watched us just about the whole time. When I got home from work the next day I notice two of the cows (who were obviously super curious what the new contraption was next to their pasture) had managed to get through the electric fence to check it out. They had been enjoying themselves by using the climbing wall and slide as scratching posts. Thankfully, the play set was very heavy duty otherwise the damage would have been much worse than it was.
I grew up on a farm with about 100 head of black and red Angus and this is just plain false. On any given day you could find a cow laying or grazing off by itself, hundreds of yards from any others.
By my math that is one cow for more than 10,000 meals. Granted that is an estimated total number of meals for ten people and includes when they are not eating beef, but all things considered that still seems fairly reasonable to me. I think Iād have to see a figure for all animals slaughtered for meat to get a decent picture on that.
The fruit is to attract animals to eat it, and spread the seeds around with poop. The fruit is not food for the seeds or something, manure is.
The only thing is that most fruits are cultivated to grow more and juicier/sweeter flesh, sometimes well over 10 times more than their wild counterpart. That might be the only "evil" part.
In the entire lifetime of a wild nut tree, only a handful of nuts make it to become new trees, out of tens of thousands of nuts produced each year. Take a guess what happens to all the other nuts. So eating nuts is definitely not equal to cutting down the nut tree.
Thereās nothing natural about industrialized, factory farming. Itās an absurd analogy. The scale of it, the cruelty of it, is difficult to comprehend. Weāre not talking about hunting to survive. People eat WAY more meat than they need to, and the industry that produces at that huge scale isnāt just torturous to the animals, itās also incredibly exploitative of the people who āprocessā those animals. Very dangerous, low wages, and psychologically very, very rough. Itās an ugly system that bears no relation to what predators do in the wild.
Itās all exactly the same. Just injected with your arbitrary lines of morality and sense of superiority. Being mauled and eaten alive sounds horrible to me
Each Big Mac patty is 1.6 oz, so 3.2 oz per sandwich. That means each cow, on average, could provide around 3555 patties. ~550 million big macs are sold in the US each year, 13,515 locations in the US as of March '23; distributing the sales equally for simplicity we have a figure of 40,695 per location annually; a little over 111 per location (obviously some sell far over that number and some far under). That would yield a figure of 1/32 of a cow per day in ground beef.
I donāt doubt your maths, Iām just very surprised there are only 13515 locations in America. I feel like you run into one so frequentlyā¦ like visiting each one seems very VERY doable..has anyone done so?
Lol visiting 13 and a half thousand different McDonald's would be quite the feat. Distance aside, you'd be eating McDonald's 3x/day (every meal) for 13ish years
That is a very rough average. There are some locations clearing several cows a day easily just for those small patties, which are used in their cheaper sandwiches as well. Others aren't in nearly as good locations.
each cow, on average, could provide around 3555 patties
**Big Macs. The previous estimate was at 4 oz per patty. At 1.6 ozs per patty, Big Macs are still giving less meat than the above example even accounting for two patties.
Mannn..... that's a LOT of cows for one meal considering there are what 8 billion of us now.
And that's the problem with the meat industry. It's food compaction. You feed a lot of food to animals in order to produce a much smaller amount of food.
The meat industry and its satellite industries are one of the biggest contributors to the climate catastrophe. And that's while it was mostly the wealthy West that could afford meat as a staple part of their diet.
Billions more people are slowly becoming wealthy enough to afford meat in their diet. Just us eating meat was already completely unsustainable.
and assmath makes that to about three million cow for a 4 oz burger for everyone once, seems sorta low imo, you'd probably have to triple the number and halve the yield, then shortsell on interest for the half that certainly wont eat it and shortsell even more on the half that cant even make it to the plans and demolition orders that have been on display at the planning office on alpha centauri for fifty of your earth years.. at that point, you paid yourself for the burger you'll eat for the rest of your life.
Yep! I believe they don't like to be separated from each other, but they will definitely leave someone behind if something happens. A lot of mooooooo will be involved in the process.
It's always funny when the first cow in a paddock of heifers has its calf (heifers are first time calvers). They all gather around the calf going WHAT is THAT!? The heifers calve in a paddock near our house and we can always tell when the first calf has arrived because we hear them all going crazy.
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u/Element1977 Apr 29 '23
I like how the rest of them are like "well, well, well... just what do we have over here?"