{"id":2881,"date":"2011-01-11T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2011-01-11T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:08:20","slug":"floating-beef-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/11\/floating-beef-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating Beef Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2880\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_2880\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/500x_houston_ship_channel_fat_1_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2880\" title=\"Beef fat on Houston Ship Canal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/500x_houston_ship_channel_fat_1_01-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/500x_houston_ship_channel_fat_1_01-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/500x_houston_ship_channel_fat_1_01-479x300.jpg 479w, https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/500x_houston_ship_channel_fat_1_01.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_2880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This beef fat on the Houston ship canal is known as &quot;patties.&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/7367781.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+houstonchronicle\/metro+%28chron.com+-+Houston+%26+Texas%29\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Chronicle<\/a><\/em> reports on a new type of spill: beef fat. About 250,000 gallons were lost from a tank. Later, about 15,000 gallons were released from a storm drain. Accident allegedly due to &#8220;employee error.&#8221; Not boss&#8217;s fault. Helpfully, the paper explained,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The beef fat or tallow is rendered from slaughterhouse leftovers.\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s all the stuff that we don&#8217;t eat,&#8221; Lindquist said.\u00a0The substance is used for personal care items including cosmetics and bar soap as well as animal feed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Chronicle reports on a new type of spill: beef fat. About 250,000 gallons were lost from a tank. Later, about 15,000 gallons were released from a storm drain. Accident allegedly due to &#8220;employee error.&#8221; Not boss&#8217;s fault. Helpfully, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/11\/floating-beef-fat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","tag-stupid-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}