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.
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.
My point was more about the plants than the cows, any nutrient in beef being ultimately derived from plants. And we may not have 4 stomachs but have other ways of accessing those nutrients. Maybe that clarifies somewhat 🤷🏼