Liposuction and biodiesel
A Norwegian businessman, Lauri Venøy, is signing a deal with Jackson Memorial Hospitals for 11,500 liters of human fat per week, for conversion to biodiesel. That's over 3000 gallons of flab, from just one hospital chain.
While I'm all for wasting nothing, I'm uneasy about this. As the value of the human body goes up, and the value of the human soul goes down, the temptation rises to use people as a resource...even if it means separating soul from body. That may someday cure childhood obesity: "Get out of those potato chips! Do you want the body snatchers to get you and melt you down?" And if fryer oil can become biodiesel, how can we be sure that some of this biodiesel doesn't end up as fryer oil? No trans fats, anyway.
Given the prevalence of tattooing nowadays, one can only wonder if lampshades are the next product.
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