Why Chipotle and Danone are going gaga for dried seaweed

Dried seaweed gaining traction as cow feed in Australia

It's a popular solution to tackling methane pollution.

Why Chipotle and Danone are going gaga for dried seaweed

There's a growing appetite across the food industry for dried seaweed. No, it's not to satisfy a trendy diet craze. Rather, it's a solution to tackle methane pollution from agriculture. Chipotle, Mars, Danone and Clover Sonoma are among the market-leading companies investing in varieties of seaweed-based feed additives to cut the amount of methane produced by cattle. Methane pollution from agriculture needs to fall by 30 percent over the next fi…