McNulty Story #3

For my third story, I want to write about the pit just recently shifted to putting roughly 1/3rd mushroom in all of their burgers. This is known as the blended burger and it leads to more sustainable eating along with less of a environmental impact. In a much broader scope than Wake Forest, Americans eat about 10 million burgers per year and replacing the burgers with 30% beef would be an excellent sustainability option. I was shocked to find this out about the burgers at Wake because I usually despise mushrooms, but it did not change my eating behavior with that popular food in dining halls on campus. I want to reach out to Dedee Johnston and she if she has any recommendations on who I can talk too / who came up with this idea.  I also think there would be great reactions in talking to students about this as I am not sure how many actually know about the blended burger. There is a lot of interesting information on the topic in terms of the burger having a lighter footprint.