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Have Your Bacon and Drive It Too

Posted by michael on from the oink-oink dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Love ham, bacon and/or sausage? Now you can share that joy with your car. Smithfield is going to turn the waste from 500,000 hogs/year into biodiesel. For those of you who don't know about biodiesel check out this site on how to make your own."

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  1. "double edged sword"? by Strange+Ranger · · Score: 3, Interesting


    It doesn't mention the by-products of burning biodiesel, but I would think more sources of diesel-like fuel is one of the LAST things we need.

    Environmental damage and pollution from livestock is a very serious problem and probably the main reason I'm "pescatarian".
    But I'm far from convinced that this process of converting the waste into fuel and burning it like diesel isn't just an equal-but-different evil, or worse. A far better option would be to treat industrialized meat as the sister-evil to SUV's. AKA Ridiculous Consumption in the vast majority of cases.

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