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M h Thursday, May 10, 1973 Chemists Develop New Food (AFS) a few years ago, a Bri tish chemist announced to a world that wasn’t really ready for it that he had made fuel for his automobile out of chicken manure. . * ■ As he later proved to the in credulous, he had done just that. But apparently industry - and perhaps the public - was just not ready to fuel three or four-thou sand dollar autos with chicken manure. However, the process of turn ing non-human waste into some thing palatable has hardly been abandoned. At the national meeting of the American Chem ical Society in New York last week, plans were unveiled for converting cattle ^ crap into a nu tritious feed for livestock. No one was saying whether cattle would be eating their own dung, but that seems to be the plan. An even more ambi tious scheme yields enough me thane gas from the dung to sup ply the heat and electricity needed to run the entire conver sion process. Since one of the companies involved. General Electric, has already opened a demonstration plant in Arizona to perfect the plan, it can hardly be written off as some pie-in-the-sky scheme. The chemical key to the whole process, apparently, was the discovery by a General Elec tric biochemist of a particular strain of bacteria that thrives on cellulose and lignin, the primary fiber constituents of manure. The bacteria consumes the fi bers, along with the rest of the manure, leaving a residue rich in protein. It also produces me thane gas, which according to some chemists can power an en gine generator. All this raises the possibility that in the near future man may reap similar benefits from his own feces. Whether man is wil ling however, is another ques tion. The cattle, of course, have little choice. The chemists who tested the processed manure claim it’s free of harmful bacteria and is taste less and odorless, but as nutri tious as other protein supple ments such as soybean, cotton seed and fish meals. Which might suggest to some a day when the ever-rising cost of meat will force man to breed livestock only for its manure. It takes little imagination to envision what the chemical-crazed food industry might do with an al ready nutritious substance that is odorless and tasteless. After successfully marketed products that are neither nutritious nor tasty. And if it all seems too far fetched to imagine being pro pelled by gas derived from chicken droppings, how about horse manure, or bat droppings? If the nation’s economy were able to accomodate itself to such a conversion, an individual’s ability to secure food and fuel would only be . . . well, his own fault. Undoubtedly, some critics will suggest such a scheme is a The Old Salem Store —McLean, from p. 1 of the year, song of the year, and best male pop vocal perfor mance. He has made television ap pearances on the Dick Cavett, Merv Griffin, Sesame Street and other shows and has performed in such clubs as the Bitter End and Gaslight in New York and the Cellar Door in Washington. He has worked with Josh Wliite, Pete Seeger and others # and was a member of Seeger’s Hudson River Sloop project. On their voyage from Maine to New York in 1969 the Sloop Singers made 27 stops and performed to about 100,000 people. Seeger has called McLean “the finest singer and songwriter I have met since Bob Dylan.” “American Pie” was McLean’s first hit recording. His new al bum is titled “Don McLean.” A convenient place to find that special ?ift for parents, for friends, or— just for yourself . . . CHINA PEWTER CRYSTAL framed prints WOODEN accessories OLD SALEM REPRODUCTIONS 614 South Main Street Monday-Saturday; 9:30 A.M.-5 P.M. Page Seven isT ttm\uk Thruway Shopping Center Dial 725-8519 all, examples already abound of step backwards. COMING EVENTS Salem College Presents Trio - Recital Marcia Garrett, Piano Donna Bird, Organ Evie Yancey, Miscellaneous Theme from “Lust Story” John C. Bust He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands Variations on the Alma Mater .Traditional (Meditations on the Virgin Trees) The Star Spangled Banner in All Keys Stripinsky Trio Sonata for Saw, Jew’s Harp, and Washtub J. S. Botch The Pathetic Sonata Ludwig fan Beathoven Improvisation on “When the Roll is Called Up Yonder .... Peter Saint Fantassy and Fudge on B-A-T-C-A List Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faggot Clod Debutantee Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart Johnny Brush When I Was Laid H. Parcell I Saw That You Were Grown Evie Antler, Soloist Shehadazit Corsett-off You are cordially invited to a beer and pretzel party immediately following the Recital (B.Y.O.B. and P.) PEPPER BUILDING WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA ff’s been Reznick’s for Records for Years TAPES - SHEET MUSIC - RECORDS DOWNTOWN 440 N. 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