An extract from the BBC’s News Website (Tue 09 Oct 07):
“Plans to slaughter and dispose of a quarter of a million lambs caught up in the foot-and-mouth crisis have been announced by the Scottish Government.
“Light lambs are usually roasted whole in Europe and there is little demand in the UK. Some carcasses will be used for BIODIESEL and the remainder will be incinerated.”
I always assumed that biodiesel would be made from rape-seed oil, used chip-fat and other ‘renewable’ sources. Never in my wildest imagination did I think that those little white bleating bundles of fluff would be used to power Manchester’s unreliable bus fleets.
How will they get the little hooves to fit in through those narrow fuel hoses? Come on – has someone really given this some thought?!
Well they have to be used for something, they’d just get burned to a crisp otherwise and nothing useful would come of them. I guess that a procreating beast can be classed as renewable.
I’d still rather have it in a kebab, though.