Syngenta working with McDonald’s to reduce gas emissions from cows

Zurich | Reuters — Agrochemicals and seeds company Syngenta is working with fast food giant McDonald’s Corp and one of its meat suppliers to supply a type of corn which it says will reduce the gaseous emissions from cattle.

Syngenta’s Enogen corn, a genetically modified crop, contains an enzyme which quickly converts starch to useable sugars.

This allows the cattle to reach market weight quicker and so reduces the greenhouse gases they produce before they are slaughtered and their meat is made into burgers.

Syngenta said a herd of 1,000 animals using the corn as feed would produce 196 less tons of CO2, the same as removing 35 cars from the road for a year.

— Reporting by John Revill