To Burger King... meet the cow-fart-backpack that wants to fight climate change...
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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Why? They are woke, too.
All of them have been white-shaming openly. It’s disgusting.
“Well, I just at a Burger King Whopper for lunch and I didn’t fart ...... do I get some sort of prize for that?”
Don’t know. Consult your proctologist.
Total bullshit!
Manure lagoons ... cringe-worthy.
I wonder why no one has called out the environmentalists for the unsustainable use of irrigation water for all their veggies and nuts? The same amount of water for one can of almonds could water 6 dairy cows.
I had family that lived in Dalhart. No matter which way the wind was blowing, you could smell a feed lot. In Lubbock, we only smelled it after a cold front.
Dear Burger King,
Please don’t change the cows’ diet. That will change the taste of your burgers! (especially if you feed them lemon grass, for goodness’ sakes)
Here is a quick easy solution to your problem that will leave your nice burgers tasting Good!...
https://bullish.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/cattle-lytic-converter/
Well that narrows it down to Wendys or McDonalds,
Farmers/Ranchers and feedlots have been doing this for years.
Through rations of more carbohydrates, Genetics and even carbon credit schemes.
Nothing new here, just a marketing campaign.
A cow’s feed efficiency has increased greatly in the past 40 years.
I should add...
Change the feed, you change the microbes in the rumen. And it is certain microbes which increase methane production
Good point... So do the new microbes emit a different gas? Ethane perhaps !
“Manure lagoons ... cringe-worthy.”
City people cannot fathom how much poop 4000 cows produce in just one day
No, only less methane.
Now their working on green beef...
People who become sheep will get eaten by the wolves....
I heard it’s one pound of manure per pound of milk produced. So ... could be over 100 pounds per day per cow.
That’s a lot of compost ;-)
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