Latest Complaint about Biodiesel—It Ain’t Vegan

Latest Complaint about Biodiesel—It Ain’t Vegan

23 January 2008 · No Comments

Seen at Treehugger:

Recently a row has broken out in the local press over Piedmont’s use of poultry fat as a feedstock. On the one side stand the vegan-purists, who claim that any purchase of waste animal fats is inexcusable, due to the support it gives to the factory farming industry[...]

Others, however, advocate a more pragmatic approach, with a response to this letter (from Bob, another vegan) claiming that waste chicken fat represents the lesser of two evils, when compared to petroleum-based diesel.

Remember folks—realism and compromise aren’t supposed to be mythical concepts.

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