Zuckerberg's side hustle: raising astronomically priced beef on his $270M Hawaii ranch

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: Zuckerberg's side hustle: raising astronomically priced beef on his $270M Hawaii ranch - Boing Boing

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[anon59592690]

He’ll get a nice tax break on that [stolen] farmland. God bless accountants.

[Gyrofrog]

Was just going to suggest that’s (at least part of) what he’s doing.

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The rumor (emphasis added) in Dallas was that the (very tony) NorthPark shopping center, and the cow pasture across the street from it, both had the same owner, who received a farming subsidy for the grazing cattle. I couldn’t find anything (e.g. in the following article) that actually, specifically says so.

[Surprise_Puma]

Nothing in that photo is appetizing.

[fuzzyfungus]

I can’t say I’m surprised that Zuck likes micromanaging the diet of feedlot animals; he’s been at that for years.

[Wordsworth_Little]

So funny that some billionaires embrace the pastoral life and want to be farmers. It’s a lot easier when you don’t have the pressures of annual, rainfall- and crop-dependent harvests to make ends meet, and you can finance a small army of people to do the sweaty work for you while your daughter feeds two of the cows. Ahh…living on the farm and enjoying the fruit of one’s labor.

But heck, I’ll try some of his beer-guzzling beef as long as it isn’t served at Nusr-et.

[Travesty]

What do the locals think of a rich mainlander buying all that land and using the resources for his own profit?

[anon61221983]

Probably something similar to what they’ve been thinking since the sons of American missionaries overthrew their government?

[smulder]

@frauenfelder

cattle are wagyu and angus, and they’ll grow up eating macadamia meal and drinking beer

 

[Bfarnn]

Yeah, the word “we” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

[GagHalfrunt]

And the people it refers to will not be doing any of the heavy lifting.

[Peter_Merryman]

I hope he’s branding it as Meata

[d4l3d]

Roseanne Barr’s nut farm must be thrilled.

[smut_clyde]

@frauenfelder

they’ll grow up eating macadamia meal and drinking beer

Animal abuse as well as the ecological catastrophe of an introduced monoculture on stolen land. The dude is going for some kind of Bingo.

[smulder]

[FuckThisTimeLine]

@frauenfelder

We want the whole process to be local and vertically integrated

Why I get the feeling he means raising castles and managing f*ckbook users are one and the same.

Also, can we as society stop subsiding these billionaires playing farmers raising/growing plant/animals for their exotic gourmet foods.

@frauenfelder

Each cow eats 5,000-10,000 pounds of food each year, so that’s a lot of acres of macadamia trees

There is better use for the farmland than this bullshit.

[hecep]

Sounds like the cattle are all lined up at a bar, munching nuts and downing beer while watching a rodeo on a big screen. Bronco throws rider then runs over him. “Yeah! Beers on me!”"

[RickMycroft]

[Brainspore]

@anon61221983

since the sons of American missionaries overthrew their government?

Though the English, the Russians and even some Norwegians all had a go at it first. Poor islanders can’t catch a break.

[Bfarnn]

@hecep

Sounds like the cattle are all lined up at a bar, munching nuts and downing beer while watching a rodeo on a big screen.

until Zuckerberg bursts in kills and eats them!

I bet he set this whole thing up just for the romanticism of “slaughtering his own food”. What happens to this whole operation once he gets bored of entry-level plutocrat bloodlust? Ceding the land back to its ancestral people doesn’t sound… exploity enough.