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"textContent": "submitted by hamid to vegan\n56 points | 28 comments\n\nTo feed your food preferences:\n\nAI: ~560–800 Billion Liters Annual usage\n\nBeef: ~4,387 Trillion Liters (for feed alone)\n\nAI: Minimal land use\n\nBeef: 44% of global habitable land\n\nAI: ~20,400 tons CO2 (per large model)\n\nBeef: ~14.5% of all global emissions\n\nAI: Electronic waste, local heat islands\n\nBeef: Methane, manure runoff, “dead zones”\n\nA single quarter-pound beef burger requires between 40 and 70 gallons of surface/groundwater\n\nA heavy AI user (50 queries/day for a year) consumes roughly 14 to 48 gallons of water annually\n\nBeef 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.\n\nAll this to torture cows. Fucking stop it. Stop it NOW.",
"title": "Concerned about resource usage of AI? Stop eating beef NOW."
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