Comments on: Tyson, ConocoPhillips link up for biodiesel

Companies will team up to turn billions of pounds of animal fat into biodiesel for U.S. drivers.

[billmosby]

Might as well put it to good use.

Up next: a bumper sticker that reads, "Beef, It's What's For
Hummers".
Sorry.

[ashleylafay]

Biodiesel from animals!

If the children of these monsters, the CEOs of Tyson and Conoco, were to be used for biofuel - that would be justice!

[fred dunn]

Get a life why don't you? It's a by product...

of processing chickens into what we buy at the market. If you don't like it then don't but it. This doesn't mean anymore chickens will be processed that are now. It is the fat that can be coverted to fuel not the meat.
So even if you object to eating chicken you should at least appreciate that less of the chicken is being wasted.

If you're a vefetarian then use ethanol but don't preach your lifestyle here. If you are an activist then you are probably an environmental activist as well so if you have all the answers then present them otherwise....

[fred dunn]

Wonderful Idea...

This waste product may as well be put to good use and this is a great idea.

[fishmarc]

Factory farming/biodiesal fuel

Factory farming produces 89,000 tons of excrement every minute, this excrement is 130 times more toxic than human waste and it is not treated!! Rivers in 17 states are dead because of factory farming. It takes 4,000 gallons of water to make 1 lb of meat. Pollution from factory farming is 3rd highest threat to the environment. If we stopped feeding just the cattle in the US we would have enough soybeans and grains to feed 8.7 billion people (world population is just over 6 billion now). This is one of the many ways that corporations make money at YOUR expense and with YOUR tax dollars. Simply brilliant.