{"id":2676,"date":"2006-11-27T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2006-11-27T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T08:29:09","slug":"tysons_renewabl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2676","title":{"rendered":"Tyson&#8217;s Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feld.com\/blog\/archives\/002075.html\">Brad Feld<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Tyson Foods, the world&#8217;s largest chicken producer and meat processing company, blamed high corn prices last week for its third consecutive quarterly loss. It said that the recent excitement over corn-based ethanol fuel sent the price of that grain soaring, raising feed costs and compounding the effect of a meat glut that depressed prices. &#8220;This is either corn for feed for corn for fuel,&#8221; Rich L. Bond, president and chief executive, lamented in a statement.<br \/>\nWell, if fuels are where the money is, Tyson will be there too. As Mr. Bond was releasing the disappointing results, Jeff Webster of the corporate strategy department was announcing a brand new venture: Tyson Renewable Energy. Its first task? Turning some of what the company described as its &#8220;vast supply of animal fat&#8221; &#8211; 2.3 billion pounds a year, Mr. Webster reckons &#8211; into a diesel-like biofuel.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Funny<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Feld: &#8220;Tyson Foods, the world&#8217;s largest chicken producer and meat processing company, blamed high corn prices last week for its third consecutive quarterly loss. It said that the recent excitement over corn-based ethanol fuel sent the price of that grain soaring, raising feed costs and compounding the effect of a meat glut that depressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}