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Hold the beef: McDonald’s avoids the bold step it must take to cut emissions
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Each year, McDonald’s buys as much as 1.9bn lb of beef that it packs into patties for millions of Happy Meals, Quarter Pounders, Big Macs, Triple Cheeseburgers and other popular beefy sandwiches served across the globe.
The staggering volume of meat requires the company and its suppliers to slaughter north of 7 million cattle, according to some estimations, and that comes at a steep cost to the environment: McDonald’s more than 53m metric tons of greenhouse gas produced in 2020 exceeds several European nations’ emissions.
In recent years, the company announced big sustainability initiatives but climate experts who reviewed McDonald’s plans and data say the burger company is largely dodging the one bold step it must take to slash emissions:
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