Innovation such as the Impossible Whopper is key to climate change

Published April 2, 2019 9:53pm ET



Wannabe regulators such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., have a tendency to get distracted by the small stuff when it comes to combating climate change. The rollout of Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal offered a glimpse into the strange priorities of the environmental Left in Congress. The proposals have been widely mocked, from the suggestion we move away from air travel, to phasing out combustion engines for cars, to the now-deleted language about limiting “cow farts.” Here’s the thing though: Those farts, AKA methane gas from livestock flatulence, are a large and serious contributor to climate change.

But the government doesn’t have to do anything to curb consumer demand for meat. A San Francisco company called Impossible Foods just announced a partnership with Burger King to offer an alternative to animal meat on the burger menu, and besides being delicious, it could be huge for the fight against climate change.

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