It is not every day that you can see an image like the one that dozens of people who were walking through South London had the opportunity to witness: none other than Prince William handing out vegetarian burgers on a food truck in South London.
Customers who were astonished to see that it was the heir to the British crown who delivered their lunch, but far from having changed his royal functions for other much more mundane tasks, it seems that everything has a reason: it is an initiative dedicated to highlighting the work of the winners of its annual Earthshot Award, the initiative the Prince of Wales created to help develop solutions to major environmental problems.
Said and done, as can be seen in a video posted on Sunday by the YouTube channel Sorted Food, the heir to the throne distributed his vegetarian burgers with ease. "I'll be right there," the prince said as he served the burgers to the stunned customers. "Good morning everyone, very well cooked, ready to take away," the eldest son of King Carlos III is heard saying, who in addition to distributing the food also explained the details of each of the projects.
"The box in which you are about to eat is built by a company called Notpla and there is no plastic involved, they have created a layer of algae," the heir tells customers, interested in the initiative. A project that has perfected these burgers, with ingredients grown in modular greenhouses designed by the Indian company Kheyti; and cooked in clean-burning stoves with a system devised by Charlot Magayi, called Mukuru Clean.
Now, regarding the most important thing, its taste, the heir seemed doubtful: "I can't vouch for the taste, the quality, but... I'm working on it."
For several years, the Prince of Wales has been very interested in seeing the light of this type of project. In 2021 he presented the first Earthshot Award - the largest environmental award ever created - through the Royal Foundation, which endows the winner with more than one million euros to continue his environmental projects.
Over the next decade, the prize will allocate more than €50 million to innovative ideas that have the potential to improve the long-term health of the planet in one of several categories: protecting nature, cleaning the air, reviving the oceans, creating a world without garbage and repair the climate; all of them supported by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN).
