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NCBA Responds to Burger King CowsMenu Campaign
USAgNet - 07/15/2020
Members of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association are disappointed by the release of Burger King's #CowsMenu campaign. The nation's burger restaurants can, and many of them do, play a vital role in helping improve beef's sustainability and reducing its
environmental footprint.
Unfortunately, Burger King has chosen a different path, relying on kitschy imagery that misrepresents basic bovine biology - cattle emissions come from burps, not farts - and on the potential impact of a single ruminant nutrition study that was so small and poorly
conceived, it was dismissed by many leading NGOs and beef industry experts.
The U.S. is already a leader in sustainable beef production. The EPA attributes just 2 percent of greenhouse gas emissions to the American cattle industry, and yet cattle farmers and ranchers remain committed to continuous improvement and producing beef
more sustainably.
America's cattle producers are disappointed that Burger King has decided to follow a path that is misaligned with those who are already making real-world efforts to reduce beef's environmental footprint, opting instead to score easy points with consumers by
launching a misleading public relations campaign.
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