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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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[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As an Australian I could argue my beef isnt from Brazil. I don't really eat it because afaik it's the worst of all the meats, but it's definitely local produce.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Australia also has plenty of deforestation problems from the beef industry. The deforestation is by no means exclusive to Brazil

Forests around the world are cleared to make way for cattle destined for your dinner plate.

And Australia is no different.

More than half the continent is used for grazing livestock. And most deforestation happens on Australian cattle farms

The deforestation on farms that ‘people don’t even know’ is happening

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

That's fair, there's plenty of deforestation in Australia for a bunch of stupid shit, even illegal logging gets tolerated.