It’s lunchtime, baby. Panda Garden. Porky goodness. Mooshu style.
The “other white meat” in your takeout container falls behind beef and chicken in American consumption, but we do pig out on pig—on average, each of us consumes 51 pounds of Wilbur annually. That translates to big impact on our water and air.
A new study released yesterday goes into detail on using pig manure for biofuel. The study, published in the journal Fuel, said the pig-manure based biofuel is not yet ready for use, but it is getting very close. A strange, but potentially helpful, way to reduce your carbon footprint.
We recently wrote about the world’s first renewable gasoline, made from algae, which is carbon neutral and can be pumped directly into your gas tank, but an even more interesting source of biofuel, which after refining could power many a tractor or car, is coming from pigs. More specifically, from the back ends of pigs.
Michael Pollan covers what "unsustainable" mean for modern, industrial agriculture, and what it spawns. Mutated bacteria which now kill more Americans than AIDS, for starters. And, this starts with over-medicated bacon!
