[KevO]

who here mentioned liposuction?
Desperate times have begun.
It'll now be un-American to be a Vegetarian!



FULL article$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')mericans are often criticised for guzzling too much gas and eating too much fat, but one of the biggest meat producers in the United States is turning the tables, with plans to make fuel for lorries out of left-over lard.

Tyson foods, one of the biggest producers of pork, beef and chicken in America, has teamed up with ConocoPhillips, the oil company, to make diesel fuel out of rendered animal fats.

The plan is the latest move by big business in America to find an alternative to Middle Eastern oil to fuel the country’s massive appetite for petrol and diesel.

Tyson said yesterday that it would send rendered chicken, pork and beef fat from one of its Texas meat-processing plants to be turned into fuel at a ConocoPhillips refinery near by. “This fuel will contribute to America’s energy security and help to address climate change concerns,” the companies said in a joint statement last night.

The lard-based diesel will be made in only one refinery for the time being, but with improvements to other facilities Conoco and Tyson hope to be able to produce about 175 million gallons a year.

[mekrob]

Of course you could just not eat so much meat, which means you don't have to feed massive amounts of corn to pigs, cattle and chicken nor do you have to spend massive amounts of fuel transporting the food to the animal, animal to the slaughterhouse, and the meat to the store and then your home. Instead, you could just eat less and healthier (greens and such with a reasonable amount of meat). Then, you'd probably save a couple billion gallons of fuel each year, not just .175 bgallons.

But where are the profits? Where's the gluttony?

اين المنتجات؟ اين الشراهة؟

[Newsseeker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', 'O')f course you could just not eat so much meat, which means you don't have to feed massive amounts of corn to pigs, cattle and chicken nor do you have to spend massive amounts of fuel transporting the food to the animal, animal to the slaughterhouse, and the meat to the store and then your home. Instead, you could just eat less and healthier (greens and such with a reasonable amount of meat). Then, you'd probably save a couple billion gallons of fuel each year, not just .175 bgallons.

But where are the profits? Where's the gluttony?

اين المنتجات؟ اين الشراهة؟

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')ore for ethanol!

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KevO', 'w')ho here mentioned liposuction?
Desperate times have begun.
It'll now be un-American to be a Vegetarian!



FULL article$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')mericans are often criticised for guzzling too much gas and eating too much fat, but one of the biggest meat producers in the United States is turning the tables, with plans to make fuel for lorries out of left-over lard.

Tyson foods, one of the biggest producers of pork, beef and chicken in America, has teamed up with ConocoPhillips, the oil company, to make diesel fuel out of rendered animal fats.

The plan is the latest move by big business in America to find an alternative to Middle Eastern oil to fuel the country’s massive appetite for petrol and diesel.

Tyson said yesterday that it would send rendered chicken, pork and beef fat from one of its Texas meat-processing plants to be turned into fuel at a ConocoPhillips refinery near by. “This fuel will contribute to America’s energy security and help to address climate change concerns,” the companies said in a joint statement last night.

The lard-based diesel will be made in only one refinery for the time being, but with improvements to other facilities Conoco and Tyson hope to be able to produce about 175 million gallons a year.

[billp]

Cheers.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'B')ut mekrob, I don't eat a lot of meat (like most of the people I know) because a little goes a long way, we don't need that much protein, it is bad for the environment, a lot is unhealthy, etc. I think that message has already gotten through to many if not most Americans. Problem is there are just way to many of us. (3rd most populated country in the world).

Anyway Tyson and ConocoPhillips will just be competing with the hippies for the used-fryolater grease.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'w')e agree but I suggest it's already been done, that people have cut their consumption already. There's little margin to reduce.

[Ludi]

"Around 80 million acres of land are planted to corn, with the majority of the crop grown in the Heartland region. Most of the crop is used as the main energy ingredient in livestock feed. Corn is also processed into a multitude of food and industrial products including starch, sweeteners, corn oil, beverage and industrial alcohol, and fuel ethanol. The United States is a major player in the world corn trade market, with approximately 20 percent of the corn crop exported to other countries."

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Corn/


"According to the National Corn Growers Association, about eighty percent of all corn grown in the U.S. is consumed by domestic and overseas livestock, poultry, and fish production. The crop is fed as ground grain, silage, high-moisture, and high-oil corn. About 12% of the U.S. corn crop ends up in foods that are either consumed directly (e.g. corn chips) or indirectly (e.g. high fructose corn syrup). It also has a wide array of industrial uses including ethanol, a popular oxygenate in cleaner burning auto fuels."


http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/ag101/cropmajor.html


"Today, about 25 percent of the U.S. corn crop goes into rations for growing and finishing cattle. Forty to 80 percent of the diet of those animals is corn-based."

http://www.csrees.usda.gov/newsroom/lgu ... ws004.html

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I') was talking about beef and the notion that beef tallow could go to fuel. The chart says the same thing.