In any case it’s despicable.

Most fast food burgers are made from depleted milk cows, so there's actually little overlap with places that sell beef from dedicated meat cows

The other number should be the one that's mind boggling. We see the number "million" so much and don't grasp its scale.

cows aren't killed for burgers.

1/10 lbs patties like they always were

1600 patties per cow is a value I've heard since I was a kid in the 70s. It wasn't McD specifically. Maybe the cows have grown fatter or the patties smaller over the decades.

Anyway, my point was, hundreds of millions of burgers doesn't deplete the country of cattle heads. It was an remark about orders of magnitude.

Bold of you to assume McD's patties are pure meat. Probably half the weight is extra fat and pink slime, so you can easily double that.

Forgot this exists, no more wondering like op.

So wrong here. They grind trimmings, the same trimmings that are ground into ground beef that sits in the counters of your local retailer. I sell this shit and can guarantee you the McDonald's system is not my last option, those trimmings all make it into the food supply. Also you can't feed cow parts to food animals ,it's a BSE risk.