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Concerned about resource usage of AI? Stop eating beef NOW. (crazypeople.online)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by hamid@crazypeople.online to c/vegan@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] logi@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If only there was some other way of preparing food making it more digestible and its nutrients more available without us needing 4 stomachs 🤔

[–] logi@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Of course there is. I'm just saying that the existence of cows doesn't prove anything, since they are a different organism 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.