Dr. Frank Mitloehner

Burger King’s new marketing campaign on how it plans to reduce methane emissions from cows is drawing fire from many different directions.

University of California-Davis air quality specialist Dr.

Frank Mitloehner says, for starters, Burger King’s claim that lemongrass will

reduce methane emissions in cows by 33 percent is “premature” because the research

hasn’t been peer reviewed.

“They quoted two sources. One is a UC-Davis study that was

conducted by a colleague of mine who had inconclusive findings—so he did not confirm

those reductions,” Mitloehner says.

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