The tallow either gets thrown out or gets mixed into burgers
Can be used in other, less-profitable ways. McDonald's sells waste to other companies, they're not stupid. (I believe they're a little unusual in that they actually own the body processing facilities - normal restaurants buy from a distributor like US Foods, and the bodies are processed by their suppliers. Normally the question of "what to do with tallow" would be answered by a company like Tyson.)
If margins are thinner on murdering animals, and consumers can't stomach a cost increase, businesses running closer to the margin will die or adjust their behavior. In this case McDonald's might sell some of its processing plants (or terminate contracts that will cause partner factories to go out of business, at least some of them are not wholly owned).
This argument is stupid because you can flip it around any which way. "We can't stop eating burgers because otherwise the meat from the tallow cows would be wasted." If you're arguing for total McDonald's abolition that's cool I guess. Otherwise I encourage you to read some vegan theory. There's good stuff in /c/vegan sidebar. I have better things to do than argue with bloodmouths.
I really don't see them losing enough money it would make sense to sell their meat processing plants. I would also sure hope if we somehow decided we were never eating meat again on a systemic level we would finish the meat we already have rather than just let it rot. Anyway you've hit the nail on the head I want McDonald's totally abolished.
Can be used in other, less-profitable ways. McDonald's sells waste to other companies, they're not stupid. (I believe they're a little unusual in that they actually own the body processing facilities - normal restaurants buy from a distributor like US Foods, and the bodies are processed by their suppliers. Normally the question of "what to do with tallow" would be answered by a company like Tyson.)
If margins are thinner on murdering animals, and consumers can't stomach a cost increase, businesses running closer to the margin will die or adjust their behavior. In this case McDonald's might sell some of its processing plants (or terminate contracts that will cause partner factories to go out of business, at least some of them are not wholly owned).
This argument is stupid because you can flip it around any which way. "We can't stop eating burgers because otherwise the meat from the tallow cows would be wasted." If you're arguing for total McDonald's abolition that's cool I guess. Otherwise I encourage you to read some vegan theory. There's good stuff in /c/vegan sidebar. I have better things to do than argue with bloodmouths.
I really don't see them losing enough money it would make sense to sell their meat processing plants. I would also sure hope if we somehow decided we were never eating meat again on a systemic level we would finish the meat we already have rather than just let it rot. Anyway you've hit the nail on the head I want McDonald's totally abolished.