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why would it be cheaper than refining vegetable oil ? making something expensive into something cheaper doesn't seem like a particularly sensible business model. |
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I had an old (late 70's?) book on technology which mentioned the process of producing some kind of foodstuff from oil.. it suggested that countries with oil but poor crop conditions might eat part of their crude oil output. |
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[benjamin] was the food from oil thing not based on oil-eating bacteria and fungi? I thought that was where the idea for Quorn came from. |
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Surely crude contains benzene... for which there is "no safe trace amount"? |
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Yes, benzene is very dangerous
carcinogen. You
should avoid breathing benzene at all
costs and try not to drink it. I guess it
is impossible to make products from
crude oil without having benzene in
them as you say. So avoid dyes,
plastics, ethanol and perscription
medicine. |
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//avoid dyes, plastics, ethanol and perscription medicine// that's probably very sound advice. |
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