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pamperedthrowaway t1_itwdtot wrote

Reply to comment by SweatyFLMan1130 in I couldn’t believe what my boss asked me to do on my first day by genuinelygrim

I fail to see how selling human meat to a fast food restaurant even makes enough to fund a free clinic.

McDonald's isn't spending a premium on human meat when it's cheaper and easier to get beef. It makes no sense from a logistical, financial or ethical standpoint. Then again, American companies love making poor decisions for short-term gain

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SweatyFLMan1130 t1_itwl4ri wrote

Perhaps their model of a 4:5 ratio is to ensure plenty of premium cuts come through for the highly selective rich folk who'd gladly pay a premium for an opportunity to taste top shelf human meat. The rest is just a slight boost to their margins that pays for storage, slaughter, and transport.

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Well_shit__-_- t1_itxrn0n wrote

We raise cattle to be slaughtered at the prime of their lives. Who wants to eat human meat that's sickly enough to go to a clinic? Top shelf human meat is Olympians and children.

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dot_comma t1_ity35xt wrote

Uhhh, wait, isn't the ratio 1:4 not 4:5? For every 1 person that goes to the left door, 4 goes to the right. Or did I miss something?

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SweatyFLMan1130 t1_ityvd5r wrote

Sorry rushed to type this but meant 4/5 as four fifths gets turned into food mass

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dot_comma t1_ityxyj3 wrote

Ah, yeah, it's all right now! I just wanted to clarify since maybe I misunderstood something. All good! 💯

Though it might be worth noting that fractions aren't the same as ratios, so for future context, you might want to avoid the misuse. 😁

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mossthedog t1_itzb4j6 wrote

But 4 out of 5 is the ratio of people who are turned into burgers out of the total people who come to the clinic. 1 to 4 person makes it out per every 4 that become burgers. Ratios can be expressed as fractions, ratios (and rates and proportions) are fractions with meaning or units of measurement. 😃

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dot_comma t1_itzrphi wrote

Yes, it is true, ratios can be expressed as fractions, but not all ratios can be read the same way as fractions. Fractions are always read as a whole idea of something while ratios can be read pertaining to several things. 🤔

For example, in this post's context, both ways work because it's expressed in very similar ways:

  1. As a whole idea: 4:5 or ⅘ is the amount of people who get turned into food mass.

  2. As a ratio pertaining to different things: 4:1 where 4 people go "right," for every person that goes "left."

I do not mean to get into an argument, by the way (forgive me if it may seem to be viewed as such). If any, I'd take our conversation as an informative experience for both of us.

For a better analogy, let's do an example with burgers and beers: say, for every 2 burgers you buy, you get 3 cans of beer. Then we could say the ratio is 2:3, however we can't turn it into a fraction (⅔), because it takes two different things into account; not like 2 burgers out of 3 beers.

I dunno if I made it more confusing, but I hope I got my point across. 😂

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FacelessArtifact t1_itx0xin wrote

Not really. Whole forests are destroyed to raise cattle. Meat is unsustainable. We raise more food (corn esp) to feed the cattle than to feed us humans.

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Blooddraken t1_ityhqbl wrote

And it was us common folk who made that necessary. I grew up in Iowa. And I've worked in cornfields in the middle of summer. Which sucked. Corn is very very itchy.

Anyways, Corn, and many other fruits and vegetables, come in grades.

First Grade: Human Consumption.

Second Grade: Animal consumption. Wanna know the difference between human corn and animal corn? Its appearance. Humans don't like ugly foods.

And the Third Grade of corn is industrial. Mainly Ethanol.

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pamperedthrowaway t1_itydtfe wrote

You've probably heard it before but I am honestly surprised you haven't been showered in downvotes

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FacelessArtifact t1_iu52jd4 wrote

I’m not a vegetarian. Lol. I love a good hamburger! But, I do believe there will be a time (sooner rather than later), when we will stop mass production of meat, esp cows. I expect there will be “private”, underground (prob not literally!) production of cows for the very elite rich folks. I also truly believe there will be “water wars”. That is far more deadly and closer to affecting our lives.

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