The inconvenient truth about Burger King’s ‘reduced methane’ Whopper
Only select Burger Kings will carry the Whoppers, at least for now, so this London location is out of luck (Hulki Okan Tabak/Unsplash/)We might brew a cup of herbal tea when we have an upset stomach. Now, it seems that beef cattle could also benefit from herbs—lemongrass, in particular—in their feed, cutting back on burps rich in methane, a potent climate-warming gas (and yes, it is mostly from burps, not farts). That’s at least according to unpublished research funded by Burger King. On Tuesday, the fast food chain announced the launch of a “methane-reduced” patty, complete with a country music-powered video of children extolling the virtues of reducing methane. Mason Ramsey (the yodeling Walmart kid), emerges from the rear of a cow, singing “When cows fart and burp and splatter/well it ain’t no laughing matter.” (Again, it’s mostly burps! Not farts!).cow farts & burps are no laughing matter. they release methane,...