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'Waste not, want not' - meat sustainability 01 Dec 2009
More and more, the US meat and poultry industries are turning their attention to creating renewable products, such as adhesives and plastics, from the animal by-products that can't be sold in supermarkets.
According to an article published in the USA Today, entitled "Waste Not, Want Not: Companies Find Uses for Leftover Animal Parts," meat processors, including Tyson Foods, Perdue Farms and Maple Leaf Foods are developing new uses and markets for animal parts that are inedible to humans.
Ironically, but perhaps not surprisingly, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) were not supportive of these increased sustainability efforts by the meat and poultry industries. Quoted in the USA Today article, Kathy Guillermo, PETA Vice President of laboratory investigations, says "The last thing we need in this country is another use for the bodies of animals."
Some of the processors and projects mentioned in the article include:
- Tyson Foods is also involved in a joint venture with Syntroleum Corp. of Tulsa to build a renewable fuels plant in Baton Rouge. Webster says the plant, expected to be at full production next July, will convert beef tallow, pork lard, chicken fat and cooking grease into a synthetic diesel fuel. Because of the fuel's ultra-low emissions grade, it will be marketed to emission cap markets, underground mining companies and the general aviation market.
- Perdue Farms collects poultry litter, a blend of manure and wood shavings, and converts it into organic fertilizer pellets
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