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Factory To Make Biodiesel From Chicken Fat
telekon writes "Tyson foods has finally found a use for chicken fat and leftover food grease that isn't McNuggets — they've partnered with Syntroleum to produce biodiesel from the stuff. Their first plant in Louisiana will be able to churn out 75 million gallons a year. The question is, will the exhaust smell like fried chicken?"
Given that the origins of conventional oil aren't exactly vegetarian safe(coal is good and vegetarian, though), and they seem to deal with current petro-fuels as well as anybody else, it will only be the whiny "Cry, cry, the smell of your burning animal flesh disgusts me!" purity fetishist vegetarians who have any trouble with it. Given how annoying those ones are, I'm not too concerned.
Vegetarian? Do you suffer from medical conditions that make eating meat difficult or dangerous for you? An allergy? Heart condition?
Or are you ignoring your nature as a hunter of prey? All the great apes hunt and kill for food. It is argued that the high density calories in meat allowed humanity sufficient free time and energy to develop culture and technology. We have bifocal color vision. We have canine teeth. We have grasping hands. We are among the worlds greatest endurance runners. We have advanced intelligence capable of planning and tactics. Aside from our endurance and teeth (and these are also predatory features), all those traits are unique to predators. We have evolved for millions of years as omnivorous predators, to eat meat. Why do you hate nature so much to go against that?