• F04118F@feddit.nl
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    Of course, something that eats cows that eat a shitton of plastic, will have even more plastic in it.

    But that doesn’t mean that it’s healthy to eat an animal that has been fed (assuming they are slaughtered at 3 years, and ignoring the climate impact, the ethics of slaughtering an animal in its youth, etc)…

    41 kg of plastic

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      I think if you don’t count the culling of baby calves the average age is ~6years so like 82kg of plastic.

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        Thanks for your feedback, I was guesstimating off the top of my head. On doing some research, I see meat cows are usually slaughtered at 18 months - 2 years old in the Netherlands.

        5-6 years is the number I see for dairy cows.