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E. coli Alert: Nestle Recalls Toll House Cookie Dough Products!
David Blume says: Dough is Perfect for Making Clean Alcohol Fuel

Chippewa Falls, Wis. (June 19, 2009) – Permaculture and BioFuels Expert and author David Blume, who will be appearing at the Wisconsin Farmers Union Summer Conference on June 25, 2009, and will be holding his two-day workshop on June 27-28, 2009, in Osseo, Wis., and July 6-7, 2009 in Madison, Wis., made the following statement today:
"Nestle's recall of its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products followed the FDA's statement that there have been 66 reports of illness across 28 states since March '09, involving people who ate the dough raw."
Blume continued saying that, "The current cookie dough health scare is triggering nationwide recalls that include Nestle's refrigerated cookie bar dough, cookie dough tub, cookie dough tubes, limited edition cookie dough items, seasonal cookie dough, Ultimates cookie bar dough and it extends to chocolate chip dough and other varieties, including gingerbread, sugar and peanut butter cookie dough. These are now waste products, but all of these sources can be readily repurposed as an environmentally friendly and economically beneficial Alcohol Fuel source."
Contaminated and waste food crises such as the recent toxic pistachio and poison peanut recall demonstrate once again why America needs a thriving small-scale alcohol fuel system. As Blume has written articles on and stated in interviews over the last several months, "Foods such as Nestle's Toll House Cookie Dough, are carbohydrate-ladened products that though toxic now, but can be safely repurposed and are ideally suited to be fodder for alcohol fuel."
E. coli is a potentially deadly bacterium that can cause bloody diarrhea, dehydration and, in the most severe cases, kidney failure. Small-scale alcohol distillery plants are able to extract the starches and sugars from these contaminated food products, feed them to yeast (the same yeast used to make bread), which converts them to an end product alcohol fuel suited to replacing gasoline, ethanol, biodiesel and heating oil. The distillation process would render any bacteria or germs harmless and the by-products would be safe for repurposing or disposal.
Massive food system failures happen with surprising frequency.
  • California-based Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc., the nation's second-largest pistachio processor, was voluntarily recalling a portion of the roasted nuts it has been shipping since last fall that a Setton spokeswoman said amounts to more than 2 million pounds of nuts.
  • We just went through the Toxic Peanut recall affecting millions of tons of food products.
  • In the 80's there was an outbreak of aflatoxin in the nation's corn supply, which made most of a full year's crop carcinogenic.
  • During the California medfly crisis, and Florida freezes much of the citrus crops go to the dump.
Poison crops can be repurposed to help replace toxic fossil fuel and here's how:
According to Blume, "Turning waste into valuable fuel, works best in smaller local alcohol plants. These plants are more nimble than the behemoth Ethanol plants that rely exclusively on corn. By having flexible material handling at the start of the distillation process, they are able to use smaller lots of different materials. The fermentation, distillation and Alcohol Fuel produced are the same regardless of whether we use corn, beets, cellulose, old bread or poison nuts."
As demonstrated in Blume's Amazon.com best-selling book Alcohol Can Be a Gas!, and taught in IIEA's Two Days to Energy Independence Workshops, a wide variety of waste foods including: donuts, broken pretzels, candy and all sorts of food processing waste can be used to produce clean, "green" alcohol fuel for about 30 cents per gallon.
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