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.
Beef can’t be replaced by any other food.
It is hard to replicate the cruelty of the dairy/beef industry, I’ll give you that.
our planet can’t be replaced either, so which is more important to you?
How so?
Besides all the vegans, vegetarians, and people who can’t afford or don’t have access to beef, there are roughly 1.2 billion Hindus in the world, most of whom don’t eat beef for religious reasons.
I don’t see how beef can be irreplaceable when literally billions of people don’t eat beef and are perfectly healthy without it.
Beef is fucking poison for your body and the planet.
We have many alternatives to meat that are delicious and satiating. It’s one of the best things we can do for the planet. It’s not easy for everyone to easily cut themselves off from eating meat but it would be great if people start reducing it.
Lol
@Aristotelis @hamid old school trolling
Cows eat plants, which becomes beef, so categorically false.
We can’t digest the grasses that cows do with their 4 stomachs and rumination, so that argument is bull. But of course you’re right that beef can replaced. We’ll just have to hit the legumes and plants that we can actually digest.
If only there was some other way of preparing food making it more digestible and its nutrients more available without us needing 4 stomachs 🤔
Of course there is. I’m just saying that the existence of cows doesn’t prove anything, since they are a different organizm from us with different capabilities, like digesting things that we can’t. Using bullshit arguments doesn’t help whatever cause you think you’re helping.
Conversely, no one needs AI. That could be stopped without any modification to people’s diet and the logistical changes that would require.
Its a “low hanging fruit”