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...America have been transformed, so has the business of Chinese-American food today. Top restaurant chain P.F. Chang's China Bistro was actually founded by one Paul Fleming, its name derived from Fleming's initials and an alternative spelling of consultant Phillip Chiang's surname. The largest distributor of soy-sauce packets in the U.S., Kari-Out, is owned by a Jewish family in New York City (and Kari-Out soy sauce contains no soy). In the Los Angeles area, fortune cookies, noodles, sheets of wonton pastry and dumplings are mostly made by Mexican workers...
...Given the environmental spill-over costs of factory farmed meats, HUDS should exert this power. As food prices worldwide spike, most of the world’s corn and soy crops are fed to animals—with grain-fed beef requiring 10 times more grain to produce the same amount of calories as direct grain consumption. This, coupled with absurd ethanol subsidies, incentivizes monoculture production of corn across the Midwest, which in turn erodes soil and creates nitrogen run-off into the Gulf of Mexico...
...number of viable alternatives that inhibit our breakneck carbon-emissions trajectory and have a potential to make a serious dent on the worldwide release of greenhouse gases. Among these are ethanol derived from sugar cane, which already drives approximately 85 percent of Brazil’s cars, and soy-derived biodiesel, which helps power all the diesel-burning trucks on our campus, according to David E. Harris, Jr., the general manager of operations and finance for Harvard University Transportation Services...
...According to National Geographic, soy-based biodiesel such as is used in Harvard’s fleet, contains 2.5 units of usable energy for every unit of energy used in its production (which compares favorably to corn ethanol’s ratio of 1.3:1), and decreases the emissions of carbon dioxide by 68 percent compared to standard diesel...
...means that the 50,000 gallons of 20 percent biodiesel used by campus vehicles yearly cut total emissions of CO2 78,000 pounds—the equivalent of taking about eight average American cars off the road. That isn’t bad for one relatively small college. Moreover, soy-derived biodiesel is a byproduct of soybean processing, and its production does not decrease the food supply as greatly as that of corn or sugarcane ethanol...