To feed your food preferences:
AI: ~560–800 Billion Liters Annual usage
Beef: ~4,387 Trillion Liters (for feed alone)
AI: Minimal land use
Beef: 44% of global habitable land
AI: ~20,400 tons CO2 (per large model)
Beef: ~14.5% of all global emissions
AI: Electronic waste, local heat islands
Beef: Methane, manure runoff, “dead zones”
A single quarter-pound beef burger requires between 40 and 70 gallons of surface/groundwater
A heavy AI user (50 queries/day for a year) consumes roughly 14 to 48 gallons of water annually
Beef driven industrial agriculture is the #1 driver of global deforestation. In the Amazon, cattle ranching is responsible for at least 75% of forest loss. This is causing ecological collapse.
All this to torture cows. Fucking stop it. Stop it NOW.
I don’t order my beef from Amazon though.
The truth is that this poster is obnoxious and posts obvious flame bait.
They get ratioed on almost everything they post because no one buys what they are selling.
My instance doesn’t display downvotes so I don’t see it if that’s true.
Even if your flesh isn’t shipped from there, the feed for the animals you kill will have been.
Beef is exported from Brazil to the rest of the world
As an Australian I could argue my beef isnt from Brazil. I don’t really eat it because afaik it’s the worst of all the meats, but it’s definitely local produce.
Australia also has plenty of deforestation problems from the beef industry. The deforestation is by no means exclusive to Brazil
The deforestation on farms that ‘people don’t even know’ is happening
That’s fair, there’s plenty of deforestation in Australia for a bunch of stupid shit, even illegal logging gets tolerated.