Bon Appetit Serves Cheeseburgers While Lowering Carbon Footprint
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009, 12:38 PM
The folks over at Bon Appetit Management Co., a California-based catering company that serves 80 million meals a year at schools and companies across the country, recently announced that it has reduced the beef it purchases by 25 percent.
According to an article over at Meatingplace, Bon Appetit has “exceeded its carbon footprint goals for the year by reducing beef purchases by 25 percent, cheese by 10 percent, tropical fruit by 50 percent and total food waste by 20 percent.”
A representative from Bon Appetit said: “Chefs are able to offer the usual cheeseburgers to diners who want them, and still reduce the amount of beef they purchase. This reduction is a key component of the program because regardless of how far it travels, or how the animals are raised, beef and cheese come from methane-emitting ruminant animals and methane is a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than CO2.”
–Deepa
