Beef farmer organizations and some researchers hit back, saying the campaign amounts to a Whopper of deception.
First, it challenges the claim that cattle are responsible for about 14 per cent of global greenhouse gas.
Dr. Frank Mitloehner, a University of California at Davis professor who specializes in air quality, said in the United States it’s three per cent.
Second, there are no peer-reviewed scientific reports that show lemongrass reduces methane emisssions from cattle.
Third, Burger King makes a joke about the methane in farts. In fact, most of the methane from cattle is burps.
Burger King cited a lemongrass trial that has not been officially published.
Burger King is owned by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway and a Brazilian company. They also own Tim Horton’s, Popeye’s, Heinz and Kraft.
