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One: Have you heard the news?
Two: No, what's happened?
One: The good Lord has come down in human form and had himself killed!
Two: To what end?
One: With this act, the Devil is hoodwinked and all humanity saved!
Two: Gosh, that's simply lovely.
I loooove eating beef. I love it. I love steak. I love burgers. I love pot roast. I love it all. Except maybe roast beef sandwiches. But other than that I'm a beef-lover.
I recently drastically reduced my beef intake for both health reasons and for the environment. It got me to thinking about beef and cows. With my limited perspective and my surely-faulty "science" I just can't wrap my head around it.
I live in Athens, Georgia. According to Google, we have a lot of restaurants whose main bag is beef:
The list could easily go on and on. I skipped the 3 Arby's, the several Taco Bells -- hell all of the mexican-food places and all of the local mom & pop places like The Grill.
Here's my point: How many cows a day do the 17 restaurants in the list above go through in one day? They're serving beef all day long. I'd guess they have beef in some form or another cooking from lunch until close. So let's be conservative and say that those 17 restaurants go through 10 cows a day (I'm being what I think is very conservative here.. I'd guess it was way way more than that) and that the rest of the eateries in town account for another 5 cows a day for a total of 15. Then there's the grocery stores. Another 5? Let's call it 20.
20 cows a day, every day. 7300 cows a year, just in Athens.
Now think about a city like Atlanta, New York or Los Angeles. How may cows a day do they use? Chicago? Philadelphia? Boston? If Athens is your average college town, huge cities have to be doing four, five maybe even ten times the amount we're doing.
One site I read said that there are 6.6 million cows slaughtered annually in the U.S. That's roughly 17,260 a day. The site was some vegetarian propaganda site, so let's say they doubled the numbers in their favor. So halving it, 8600 cows a day every day.
Where the fuck are all of these cows?! How can there possibly be that many cows? How can they possibly make baby cows that fast? It just doesn't seem possible.