Shipping is also really cheap, even refrigerated. The last mile is one of the biggest costs, so the next state over and the other side of the world have quite similar costs and carbon emissions.
according to my sloppy sleuthin, a beef cow provides 500lbs of dressed beef. mcdonalds patties are 1.5oz precooked weight. if all produced into ground beef, each cow therefore provides mcd’s 5330 burger patties (likely more with the fillers they use e.g. cellulose gel but there’s no data available on their filler%)
That’s only 72 burgers per cattle to supply McDonalds, and there’s almost certainly much more than 72 burgers woth of meat in a cow.
McDonalds buys beef internationally, they’re not using American beef where they can avoid paying for it
im surprised by this. i assumed home-grown beef was cheaper
Beef is resource intensive. Better to have poor countries waste their cheaper resources than to pay for domestic resources.
Shipping is also really cheap, even refrigerated. The last mile is one of the biggest costs, so the next state over and the other side of the world have quite similar costs and carbon emissions.
according to my sloppy sleuthin, a beef cow provides 500lbs of dressed beef. mcdonalds patties are 1.5oz precooked weight. if all produced into ground beef, each cow therefore provides mcd’s 5330 burger patties (likely more with the fillers they use e.g. cellulose gel but there’s no data available on their filler%)