To protect the environment, Burger King has given itself a new mission: to limit the methane released by farts and burps of cows supplying the meat of its famous “Whopper” sandwiches by adjusting their diet.
According to preliminary tests, adding 100 grams of lemongrass leaves to the usual diet of ruminants at the end of their life helps them digest better, the group said in a statement earlier this week.
A new anti-gas regime
To reach these conclusions, the researchers changed the diet of cows during the last four months of their life. Those who benefited from this experience have, over the last three to four months, released 33% less methane, a gas contributing to the greenhouse effect, than their counterparts having not changed food.
Fans curious to taste a hamburger designed with a steak from one of these cows should go from Tuesday in one of the chain’s restaurants in Miami, New York, Austin, Portland or Los Angeles.
But Burger King, who has teamed up with two researchers to conduct this experiment, hopes to inspire other organizations. Thus, the conclusions of the study are made available to all.
“If the whole sector, from farmers to meat distributors, to other brands, join us, we can extend this experience on a large scale and collectively help reduce methane emissions which have a role in change “, assures the group.
To meet the demand of certain customers who are increasingly concerned about respecting the environment by limiting their consumption of meat, Burger King had already been one of the first large chains to offer a vegetarian version of its flagship hamburger in spring 2019.
In France, according to the Consoglobe planetoscope, about 1.2 billion hamburgers are consumed each year, or nearly 40 burgers per second. By consuming 18 hamburgers in restaurants per year and per person, the French place themselves with the British among the largest consumers of burgers in Europe.
Via LaDepeche
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