>I have heard that much of the used veggie oil is being added to feedstock >direct. Aside from the low nutritional value, what are your thoughts on >this? > >Mike
Hi Mike Problems with that too since the dioxin scare in Belgium. Used oil value is right down, at least in Britain. If you just measure the protein it does have nutritional value, and that seems to have been the approach. It always beat me though that the high FFA content made it unsuitable for human consumption but not to feed animals raised for human consumption. I think a lot of people are asking questions like that now. Also of course a lot (most?) of the used veggie oil contains animals fats and oils. Should it be fed to grass-eaters? People are saying "No". All these practices are being looked at. It's okay to feed meat and bonemeal to chickens, it seems, according to industry. It's also okay to feed chicken litter (manure and bedding) to grass-eaters. No no, the prion can't get into the cattle that way. Uh-huh. That from the folks who gave us prions in the first place, and then denied they existed. Now we know all about prions though, so it's quite safe. Actually we know there's a rather undescribed thingie with a label on it that says "prion", and the court is still out on how the cattle got infected in the first place, and the humans. No doubt there are other unknown thingies down the road that we'll also find labels for in time, after denying they exist. The sane thing to do with all this stuff, tallow included, is to turn it into fuel. And accomplish in the doing what Terry calls "the ethical switch", stop turning our livestock into cannibals. Best Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ >-----Original Message----- >From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 9:00 AM >To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [biofuel] Tallow > > >"bob golding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > >I think that the BSE prion does not survive the rendering process. > >Yes it does. Prions are more resistant to steam sterilization than >conventional transmissible agents. Extremely resistant to dry heat: a >treatment of 360 deg C for one hour has been reported not to be >completely effective. It's through exports of rendered products by a >British company that BSE could have been spread across the world (70 >countries received protein potentially contaminated with BSE that may >then have been fed to their cattle). > >The BSE scare has kind of killed the market worldwide for rendered >products. Tallow prices are probably generally lower, wherever you >are. > >Keith Addison >Journey to Forever >Handmade Projects >Tokyo >http://journeytoforever.org/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
