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This has been debunked a number of times. There is infact enough cows to do this.
It would only take about 1.5 million cows in a year to supply McDonald's with all the beef they use in a year. Assuming every patty they use is of their largest size they currently offer. Which obviously they don't.
So worse case your looking at 1.5 million cows, and realistically it's close to 1-1.25 million since they are also using their smaller patties.
Last year in the USA alone 36 million cows were slaughtered for meat.
So mcdonalds uses about 4 percent of just the usa beef production annually, and because mcdonalds operates off of local supply chains instead of single source.
That means that 1.5m heads is sources across the entire worlds supply. So that's about half of a percent of the world 300m ish production.
And keep in mind that's a conservative estimation of cows slaughtered. The real number is likely actually a bit higher, tho not enough to really be worth mentioning.
As it's going to be local small scale and home operations.
So unless you have a sizeable misunderstanding of the concept of numbers thinking that there isn't enough beef is objectively retarded.
Now McDonald's does use the cheapest lowest quality supply they can get their hands on. So calling it meat paste isnt entirely wrong. But it is BEEF meat paste.