Post #659822
2026-03-06 04:36 UTC
Hey, so, it seems stupid but burgers are in the news recently and I actually have something to say about the meat industry. I used to work in the industry in a more tech-related context, but I was able to get a glimpse of the logistics. I watched, first hand, how burger patties are manufactured and what actually goes into that. The supplier I worked for supplied beef patties for just 1 multi-regional fast food chain in the US. They produced an average of 100,000 pounds of patties every day.
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@ch1pset@mastodon.social 2026-03-06 04:39
Of course, they don't operate every day of the year and they don't always produce the same amount throughout the year, but I extrapolated that they produced somewhere around 20-30 million pounds of patties every year. This is just one chain, that doesn't even have restaurants in every state. I also know that cattle are the most environmentally expensive livestock by far. It's not even close, they require more land, water and food than anything else.