Starbuckão às vacas!

[LUW]

http://www.hoards.com/Intel/140714_art2

Cows in Japan getting their Starbucks fix

by Abby Bauer, Associate Editor

In Japan, not only are people enjoying a treat from Starbucks, some cows are, too.

Starbucks purchases somewhere around 400 million pounds of coffee globally each year, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. In an effort to be more environmentally friendly and keep those used coffee grounds out of landfills, over 100 Starbucks locations across Japan are now converting their used coffee grounds into feed for dairy cows.

The coffee waste, known as bean cake, is collected from Starbucks locations in the Kanto and Kansai regions. It is taken to a recycling center to be dehydrated, processed using a unique lactic acid fermentation technique, and turned into a substance that can be used as cattle feed or as compost fertilizer.

Interestingly, the fermentation method was actually developed by a Japanese contact lens manufacturer, Menicon, during its experimentation with new contact lens materials. Menicon partnered with Azabu University’s School of Veterinary Medicine to create the coffee-based feed for cattle.

These coffee grounds are not going to feed just any cows either. Milk produced by the cows consuming the feed are the same cows that provide some of the milk that complements the store’s beverages. Starbucks also uses fermented coffee grounds as a fertilizer product, and, in turn, those fertilized fields grow some of the vegetables it serves.

There are no immediate plans to expand the recycling process beyond Japan. Starbucks has, however, been making good use of their used grounds for years in the U.S. and other countries by giving them away for free to customers to utilize as fertilizers in their home gardens.

[Guest Anita]

Boa notícia.

 

Agora também os japoneses comerão bifes com gosto de café.

[LUW]

E as pobres vacas, mulher?!? Quem pensa nelas????

[Guest Anita]

Nem dormirão mais.

 

No Chile o frango tinha gosto de peixe. Era parte da ração dos penosos.

[Bernardo B]

E me adiantando ao Gil:

 

Essas vacas produzem café com leite ...

 

Tem umas que recebem suplemento de cana de açúcar, e produzem a media já adoçada.

[Guest Anita]

B com #Gilfeelings

[Jose Alexandre]

Medo do leite dessas vacas.

Frango com gosto de peixe.

Não pergunto o sabor do peixe então.

[Tarcisio Pereira]

Frango com gosto de peixe? Carne de vaca com gosto de café?

Me vê o de limão que parece laranja e tem gosto de tamarindo

[Igor Coutinho]

Coitado das vacas!! Se em grão torrado vendido nas lojas já é ruim, imaginem esse tal de bean cake!! urgh...........

[Anderson Sartori]

Processo de reciclagem. Interessante.

Querem dar uma cafeinada nas vacas.

[Miyamoto]

Se botar a vaca pra dar uma corrida, deve sair até cappo!

[noisevoisbr]

é .... acho que achei a origem da "vaca louca".. louca de tanto café!

 

Se os frangos que comem peixe na ração, alguém imagina o gosto dos peixinhos da Bahia da Guanabara?   

[Tarcisio Pereira]

Se for os peixinhos que eu nunca consegui pescar tem gosto de macarrãozinho kkkk