Thursday, January 04, 2007

According to an article I read in the Santa Cruz Senile yesterday, entitled “New purpose for overlooked fat”. Chicken fat is the next big thing for biodiesel. Besides being cheaper than soybean oil, there appears to be a large abundance of it. Tyson Food Inc. alone produces 4.3 billion pounds of chicken fat annually which if converted could produce 300 million gallons of biodiesel. Mother of god! How many chickens does it take to produce 4,300,000,000lbs of fat?

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