Posted on 07/15/2020 1:54:01 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Burger King is staging an intervention with its cows.
The chain has rebalanced the diet of some of the cows by adding lemon grass in a bid to limit bovines contributions to climate change. By tweaking their diet, Burger King said Tuesday that it believes it can reduce a cows’ daily methane emissions by about 33%.
Cows emit methane as a by-product of their digestion, and that has become a potential public relations hurdle for major burger chains.
Greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture sector made up 9.9% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Of that amount, methane emissions from livestock (called enteric fermentation) comprised more than a quarter of the emissions from the agriculture sector.
With an over-the-top social media campaig n that teeters between vulgarity and science (sprinkled with more vulgarity), Burger King is banking on the heightened awareness of climate change and its responsibility to limit its own role.
According to a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, about two out of three Americans say corporations have a responsibility to combat climate change. The gravitational pull of climate change is increasingly finding its way onto national political stage.
Potential customers are also cutting down on the amount of meat they consume, citing both environmental and dietary concerns. Burger King and rival McDonald’s have added meat alternatives to their menus.
Two years ago McDonald’s said it was taking steps to cut the greenhouse gases it emits. It tweaked the manner in which the beef in its Big Macs and Quarter Pounders was produced. The company said at the time that it expected the changes to prevent 150 million metric tons (165 million tons) of greenhouse gas emissions from being released into the atmosphere by 2030.
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Lemon grass, very pretty
Planting lemon grass is smart
But for cows who feed on lemon
It’s impossible to fart
“Even people have been known to let one rip every now and then.”
Our 5 year old grandson was learning to rhyme when he let one slip, then said “and I have a gasey assey.” Took a while to stop laughing.
I’ve grown lemon grass in the lower mid-west. It’s a hardy grass. The guy that sold me the cute little plant said, “It’s just grass.” It looked beautiful as it grew to abut 2 feet and overtook its area. I harvested the stalks and froze them. They were nice to throw in Asian cooking for a few months.
Who cares when all you like from BK is their chicken sandwich!
So, the BK lounge is going to reduce emissions from cows, but they still use the conveyor belt cooker. What about the exhaust from the fuel they use?
Useless offering to the environmental wackos.
Carbon dioxide is .02% by volume of the earths atmosphere. I’d say that’s a drop in the bucket.
As a former cattle raiser, I am a bit baffled.
Our calves lived on grass until auction barn time, then it was out of our hands. They probably landed in the TX panhandle or OK somewhere at a feedlot.
Does BK have their own herd and feedlot?
Next time I visit BK, I’m ordering a four-fart-bacon-cheeseburger and baked beans.
I have no problem with this.
My wife is a vet. I’ve been with her to the corporate farms with 3000-4000 cows and look at the row upon row of football sized manure lakes bubbling methane and the difficulty of transporting away all the manure.
I guess that just leaves Wendys if I want a fast food burger. All the rest can pound sand.
I ate a Burger King fish sandwich for lunch, made from Alaskan pollock, and it didn’t fart. How many likes would I get if I posted that on Facebook? (Just curious)
If the cows eat lemon grass will the burgers taste like Pledge?
... do I get some sort of prize for that?
You rascal...
Yeah, ‘I was politically correct before it was politically correct to be politically correct.’
Original chicken sammich with cheese please!!
Sucks that I can’t find a Burger King that still sells Tacos.. they are awesome!!!!
Ridiculous and obnoxious but kind of funny commercial last night. On mute, I can see it’s some EnviroMental pandering.
They got 2 full minutes for this commercial. 2 minutes!
Most BK customers have no clue what a feedlot is. I give directions to Hereford (Texas). Go north until you smell it then west until you step in it.
Wasting money on #FakeScience.
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