IDEA: Stop consuming Deep Fried foods
 
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....FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!

Leftover deep fry oil is fueling more than just backyard-converted diesel stationwagons!

It's also helping people to believe that perhaps we (that's we in the 'developed' 1st world) can all still ride around in hydrocarbon fueled vehicles like ever before without creating a series of social and environmental disasters!

Veggie oil has high 'food miles'(although deep fry oil isn't really food) because we don't produce the oils we use for deep frying (cottonseed, canola, palm oil, and soya) in any great quantities, if at all, in Aotearoa.

(although if you would like to read about how our biggest local CO2 polluters are planning to start large scale canola production, then visit this web page:
http://straightfurrow.farmonline.co.nz/news_daily.asp?ag_id=46800 )

Imported oils can also be made from GE crops, AND WE WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW IT!

Visit this link to find out how:
www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/organisms/about-gm/food.html

YOU COULD BE RUNNING YOUR BUS ON GE CANOLA OIL FROM THE FARM NEXT DOOR TO PERCY SHMEISER (Farmer sued by monsanto for having GE plants on his farm which he did not even plant. http://weblog.greenpeace.org/ge/archives/GEqanda.pdf)

Bear in mind that deep fry oil is grown to cook in, not to eat.....

The world needs to be fed, not more cheap fuel!!!

So MAKE A SALAD! BOIL SOME BEANS, or even BAKE YOUR CHIPS!!!

Because survivors DON'T FRY.

XXX B Lesser

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Originally submitted by William Lesser on 01 Dec 2007

Now you're cooking, but

On December 2nd, 2007 Noel Fuller says:

Now you're cooking, but should we excercise some discrimination? For instance, is there anything wrong with using part of a rotation crop planted normally by the wheat farmers to restore the soil, out of season with respect to food production? I refer to your link on new NZ canola production.

Noel

I'm for the cows

On December 2nd, 2007 William Lesser says:

Well I guess it sounds fairly innocent.....apart from the fact that the company promoting it is owned by New Zealand's largest single CO2 polluter, and the biodiesel they produce will help them to continue mining coal and making it available for international consumption at a hugely unsustainable rate.

Also, growing canola as a part of wheat crop rotation encourages farmers to create more large monocultures, and unless it's grown organically, it's difficult to grow more than once every 3 years due to disease and it needs a lot of fertilizers......anyway, straight up, I'm not a wheat farmer, and I'm straying from the point.

Biodiesel is an environmental disaster when it's produced on an industrial level, and we'd be lucky to run a town the size of Mosgiel on the amount of veggie oil thrown away in Aotearoa each year.

(Unless we burn cows......I'd rather have a cow than a car, if I had a cow, I'd set it free, born freeeeee, as freeee as the wiiiiind blowws etc etc)

Bill Lesser XXX

Deep fries for frisco diesels

On December 2nd, 2007 Noel Fuller says:

Perhaps you will be reborn as a cow? :)

You are not going to like this. San Francisco's entire fleet of diesels is now running on B20 biodiesel - 20% soy oil. They claim a big reduction in the kind of fumes that have always made people like me ill - green about the gills. Read about it here:
http://sfgov.org/site/mayor_index.asp?id=71707

In particular they seem to think they can get all the oil they need from their takeaways:

"Earlier this month, San Francisco launched SFGreasecycle, a citywide program to collect waste grease for conversion to biodiesel, the first program of its kind in the country. The aim is for this program to one day serve to fuel the entire City municipal vehicle fleet. Upon full implementation of the program, the City anticipates collecting approximately 6 million pounds (or 1 million gallons) of grease annually. This will translate to nearly 1 million gallons of biofuel."

What's bad for Americans (deep fries) makes them feel green about diesel.

Noel

Frisco fries as gaia dies

On December 4th, 2007 William Lesser says:

Not really sure what this article is saying - perhaps there is a typo in it.

They are using 100% biodiesel for their municipal fleet, but the biodiesel is 20% biofuel and 80% 'mineral' diesel?

Their conversion equates to displacing 1.2 million gallons of mineral diesel per year, and they are working up to 1 million gallons??

They are also accepting without question that a 20% reduction in greenhouse emissions by 2012 (back to 1990 levels) is enough to meet their climate change obligations.

It doesn't explain how San Fran expects to fuel every other vehicle in the city which isn't part of the municipal fleet.
Are they saying that as long as the local government is doing it's bit, the rest of the city can keep on chuggin?

Peace

Bill Lesser XXX