--- title: "Zuckerberg Brags About Feeding Cows Macadamia Nuts and Beer at His Alleged Doomsday Bunker" description: "From Facebook founder to \"girl dad\" to cattle rancher to doomsday prepper, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemingly has it all." date: "2024-01-11" modified: "2024-01-11" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/zuckerberg-cattle-doomsday" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "cattle" - "doomsday bunker" - "mark zuckerberg" - "the digest" --- # Zuckerberg Brags About Feeding Cows Macadamia Nuts and Beer at His Alleged Doomsday Bunker ![From Facebook founder to "girl dad" to cattle rancher to doomsday prepper, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemingly has it all.]() *\Image: Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty / Etienne Girardet / Futurism\* ## Poster's Brain Move over, [Sam Altman]() — it looks like there's a new doomsday-prepping tech titan in town. As recent social media posts and news stories indicate, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is living *someone*'s dream. Over the past few days, the [BBQ-loving]() elder millennial shared on Instagram — which, of course, he owns — a video of him [playing with a giant catapult]() and announced that he has been raising high-end cattle on his ranch in Hawaii. "The cattle are wagyu and angus, and they'll grow up eating macadamia meal and drinking beer that we grow and produce here on the ranch," [Zuckerberg wrote]() in the caption of one of the posts. "We want the whole process to be local and vertically integrated. Each cow eats 5,000-10,000 pounds of food each year, so that's a lot of acres of macadamia trees." He went on to add that his daughters both help plant the "mac trees" and assist in the care of the Zuckerberg-Chan family's animals, which hopefully is their idea. If viewed in a vacuum, these dadposts about Zuckerberg's goings-on would be less exciting, even, than his admission that he'd [made bracelets and decorated his face]() with adhesive rhinestones when taking his daughters and their friends to see Taylor Swift last fall. But when you add into the equation *Wired*'s recent reporting about the [secret doomsday bunker]() on the family's palatial Hawaiian compound, which is said to cost an estimated $100 million to build, that IG activity starts to look more like not-so-humblebrags about having a private food source and weaponry in the event of global catastrophe. ## Doom and Gloom So secretive is the estate, which is still under construction, that any security or grounds personnel working there would be fired immediately if caught speaking to the press. "It’s fight club," a former contractor told *Wired*. "We don’t talk about fight club." To be clear, there's absolutely nothing unusual about the [uber-rich]() and [techy crowd]() getting into hoarding remote properties, food stockades and weapons caches for the end of the world. Just ask OpenAI's embattled CEO, who once [reportedly bragged]() years ago to people at a party that he "prep\[s\] for survival" from such catastrophes as lab-made virus leaks and "AI that attacks us" (yes, [the irony]() is palpable.) "I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to," Altman told folks gathered around a firepit at a long-ago Y Combinator party, [per *The New Yorker.*]() Whatever Zuckerberg's got at that giant Kauai estate is anyone's guess, but given his penchant for [Sweet Baby Ray's]() barbeque sauce, he may have a room dedicated to the delicious sauce. **More on Zuckerberg:** [*Elon Musk Started Screaming About Zuckerberg Immediately After Signing Twitter Deal*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()