[Gasification] Thanksgiving

[Damewood]

We do indeed feast upon the turkey today.  
Chances are that your turkey was bland because of being one of the over bred
processed animals that line the frozen case at the grocer.
My family dines on the wild version, a much more flavorful bird than it's
domestic cousin.

I have no information concerning the feed conversion process of vegetarians,
I know only that they consider vegetation to be prey simply because they
lack the skill to hunt successfully.

I invite you each and all to have a fine day, no matter your tradition,
nationality, creed, color or political persuasion.

Sam

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Bob Stuart
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:36 PM
To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Thanksgiving


On 22-Nov-07, at 1:01 PM, Tom Miles wrote:

> Bob,
>
> Nice one.
>
> Show us the math. How much grain do vegetarians eat? What conversion
> efficiencies are you using in lb grain/lb meat for turkey and beef  
> and for
> conversion to ethanol? What if you gasify the grain?
>
> Thanks for giving

Sorry, I don't have the trade-off for gasification handy, nor the  
range on the taxi, but the figures on feeding are based on protein  
content, and are in all the classic references with minor  
variations.  Actually, I think it comes to more like one turkey eater  
to five vegetarians - sorry.  I first saw them in Diet for a Small  
Planet, by  Francis Moore Lappe.  There are, of course, a small  
number of birds available that fed on things no human would eat.
>
>
> I have to come out in  favour of the efficiency of the custom.  If
> you have a bin of grain of a given size, you can feed twenty
> vegetarians, or two turkey eaters, but only one beefeater.  Or, you
> can probably get one turkey eater drunk and send him home in an
> ethanol-fueled cab.
>
> You are what you eat,
> Bob Stuart
>
>
>
>
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Best,
Bob Stuart




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