The power of crayons.

[MrFun]

If more deprived people had open access to crayons would this bring about world peace and the end to world hunger?

[Flandrien]

only when they taste gudd

[Bereta_Eder]

no because u cant eat them and u can still stab someone with them

[Verres]

It depends.....are we talking wax crayons or regular crayons?

[Gen. Atkinson]

Krayonz iz goood.
Kula pensilz iz sharp.
Neever tayst goood.

[Space05us]

If you gave everyone a gun there would be peace really soon.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by paiktis22
no because u cant eat them and u can still stab someone with them

If we can make edible crayons though . . . . . .

[Pyrodrew]

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/17295/story.htm

ISTANBUL - Your toddlers have just munched and swallowed their crayons. But don't panic, say "bon appetit"! The colouring sticks are made from healthy soybeans.


U.S. farming groups are counting on new products such as edible crayons to eat up a bigger proportion of soybean production and boost prices, which are in danger of sagging as global output rises.
Soybean output in Latin America is due to surge in coming years, but researchers are busy concocting new uses for soybeans, ranging from paint to adhesives in addition to a growing biofuel market, a conference heard yesterday.

"There is huge soy production and the result is driving the market down," researcher John Cherry of the U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) told an edible oils conference in Istanbul.

"There is quite an effort in the U.S. to push soybeans into the non-food market."

Use of soybeans outside of the traditional foods market has grown in recent years to absorb around four percent of the total U.S. crop, up from two to three percent, but industry groups aim to push that up to 15-20 percent by 2020, Cherry said.

Soybeans are crushed into vegetable oils for cooking, soymeal that is mainly fed to animals and is also processed into protein sources such as vegetarian foods.

Biodiesel fuel, which mainly uses soyoil as a raw material, is already a burgeoning market in the United States, with production jumping from two million litres in 1999 to 95 million litres (20.90 million Imp gallons) last year and forecast to increase to 130-140 million this year, the conference heard.


ECO-FRIENDLY

A big selling point for many of the new products is that they are environmentally friendly in contast to petroleum-based competitors. But they are generally more expensive, appealling to a limited market of green consumers willing to pay a premium.

A much cheaper use for soybeans has been discovered, however, using treated soybean hulls to filter out harmful metals such as cadmium, copper, lead and zinc from water.

A special process using citric acid and heat treatment turns the hulls into a product that outperformed expensive ion exchange resins in recent tests, said another USDA researcher, Wayne Marshall.

The production cost of the treated hulls was $1.17 per kg in contrast to the resins that sell for $5-$40, he added.

Several companies and groups are interested in exploiting the new technology, including the port district of the U.S. city of Seattle, which wants to remove harmful metals from runoff water before it ends up in a collection lake.

Another group from Iowa State University has developed soy protein-based adhesives, one of which was recently granted a U.S. patent, the conference heard.

Some of the adhesives are used to make composite wood substitutes from fibre including cornstalks, wheat straw and waste from manure and paper manufacturing.

Story by Eric Onstad
REUTERS NEWS SERVICE

World peace and removing world hunger here we come!

Next stop, legal guns that remove pollution.

[MrFun]

thanks for that article

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Pyrodrew

Next stop, legal guns that remove pollution.

Shoot a child molester or some other forms of lowlife scum and you'll be removing pollution of the gene pool.

[DAVOUT]

If you can keep your crayon when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
You will be a man, my son.

With the authorization of Rudyard Kipling.