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<blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 473484" data-attributes="member: 314"><p>Did some fun math this morning.&nbsp; I looked at the number of hamburgers sold by mcdonalds every day in the us.&nbsp; Google told me there is a little over 5 million sold every day.&nbsp; So I'll go with 5 million as a beginning.&nbsp; 5 million burgers, assume 1/4 lb each comes to 1.25 million lbs of beef.&nbsp; Average carcass weight of slaughter cattle is about 1000 lbs with about half of that being meat.&nbsp; This results in 2500 slaughter cattle every day for just one fast food restaurant. Or an annual use of 912500 cattle every year.&nbsp; The total number of slaughter cattle in the US annually is 34 millionish.&nbsp; That's some interesting math given the number of fast food joints, other restaurants, grocery stores, and other consumers like us plain ole schmoes.&nbsp; The latest numbers I could find put the DoD in 2011 at 95 million pounds of beef consumed that year for the military members and families.&nbsp; Keep in mind my math skills are on par with Alaskan skills at coconut production.&nbsp; So please check my math.&nbsp; I'm not a chicken little kind of guy, but the writing on the wall is getting pretty damn big right now. We imported a record 4.6 billion lbs of beef in 2024.&nbsp; Imported beef had better be robust and stable is all I can say or look out.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="KDM, post: 473484, member: 314"] Did some fun math this morning. I looked at the number of hamburgers sold by mcdonalds every day in the us. Google told me there is a little over 5 million sold every day. So I'll go with 5 million as a beginning. 5 million burgers, assume 1/4 lb each comes to 1.25 million lbs of beef. Average carcass weight of slaughter cattle is about 1000 lbs with about half of that being meat. This results in 2500 slaughter cattle every day for just one fast food restaurant. Or an annual use of 912500 cattle every year. The total number of slaughter cattle in the US annually is 34 millionish. That's some interesting math given the number of fast food joints, other restaurants, grocery stores, and other consumers like us plain ole schmoes. The latest numbers I could find put the DoD in 2011 at 95 million pounds of beef consumed that year for the military members and families. Keep in mind my math skills are on par with Alaskan skills at coconut production. So please check my math. I'm not a chicken little kind of guy, but the writing on the wall is getting pretty damn big right now. We imported a record 4.6 billion lbs of beef in 2024. Imported beef had better be robust and stable is all I can say or look out. [/QUOTE]

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