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posted by martyb on Tuesday March 06 2018, @01:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-not-an-Impossible-Burger dept.

Blending around 70% ground beef with 30% chopped mushrooms could reduce the environmental impact of beef:

The idea is that mixing chopped mushrooms into our burgers boosts the umami taste, adds more moisture and reduces the amount of beef required for a burger. And reducing the need for beef has a big impact on the environment. According to the World Resources Institute [WRI], if 30 percent of the beef in every burger in America were replaced by mushrooms, it would reduce greenhouse emissions by the same amount as taking 2.3 million vehicles off of our roads.

[...] Richard Waite, from the World Resources Institute, is thrilled. "I think it's great!" he says. WRI has been pushing the blended beef-mushroom burger as a candidate to become one of America's most-served menu items, which WRI calls "power meals." According to Waite, the list of the top 20 meals served by food service companies currently contains only one plant-based item, a veggie wrap. The rest are meat-centric, including four versions of the classic hamburger.

Many niche burger makers and school cafeterias have joined the blended burger bandwagon. In the dining rooms of Stanford University, Waite says, it's the only kind of burger you'll find. But Sonic's 3,500 drive-in restaurants represent a huge boost to the concept.

Here's a recipe for a roasted mushroom base and beef-mushroom burgers.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @05:08AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @05:08AM (#648367)

    Their diet has changed. Cattle nowadays are fed corn. Corn makes them expel gas far more than when grazing grasses. I'm not saying how much that contributes to climate change, only that looking at the raw head counts isn't good enough.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @11:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @11:13AM (#648450)

    Corn is a grass.

  • (Score: 2) by Taibhsear on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:32PM

    by Taibhsear (1464) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:32PM (#648526)

    Do you have a citation for the relative amounts of gas production of grass vs corn? I'm genuinely curious how large the difference is.