It’s all about trans-formation

As everybody from Starbucks to your friendly neighborhood Girl Scout cookie pusher jumps on the trans-fat ban-wagon comes the news that McDonald’s new NYC-street-legal fry oil contains, among other things, corn oil.

So we can add that to the growing list of items making greater demands on the nation’s corn crop, along with ethanol and biodegradable food packages. Good news for corn growers, bad news for livestock producers and tortilla makers.

The fat ban is all about keeping our food from conspiring with our bodies to build up stockpiles of nasty, potentially life-threatening cholesterol.

But what about all the fat a goodly majority of Americans (aka “my people”) are already carrying around, in some fairly unsightly packages? Wouldn’t it be great if some of that could fuel something  more useful than the multi-billion dollar diet-pill industry?

It’s all about biodiesel, my friends.

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