Our young, low-weight Pacific Albacore Tuna—whether Flash-Frozen or Canned—is safer and superior!   

Smaller means safer:  Vital Choice troll-caught Albacore Tuna weigh just 12 lbs. or less, so they contain much less mercury, and more omega-3s, than the far larger, older Tuna canned by national brands and served in sushi bars.

Better, fresher flavor, even in the can:  Unlike standard canned Albacore—which is cooked twice at great cost to its flavor and omega-3 content—Vital Choice Albacore Tuna is cooked only once (in the can) to preserve its healthful oils and fresh flavor. Choose from Regular or No Salt Added.

No loitering allowed:  Our tuna are hauled in fast, bled, and flash-frozen within about two hours.  (The standard long-line-caught Tuna canned by national brands spend 12 hours in the water.)

People seem to swoon over our sweet, succulent, sustainably harvested Alaska weathervane scallops.

Unlike common farmed varieties, Vital Choice scallops grow as nature intended in the cold, clear waters near Kodiak Island, Alaska.

They're individually quick frozen and available in convenient re-sealable bags, so that you can take only the scallops you need and return the rest to the freezer.

Today, Australian researchers announced they’ve developed a new chemical process to turn fibrous plant waste into a viable bio-fuel, economically.

The process uses low-value, high-cellulose-content waste such as forest thinnings, crop residues, waste paper and garden waste, significant amounts of which are now burned or dumped in landfills.

The Australians may have achieved the holy grail of bio-fuel hopes, which is to make gasoline and diesel substitutes from cheap, renewable, non-food plant matter.

If the technology proves as practical as claimed, it would avoid the barriers that undermine the economic and social viability of biofuels generated from grains, corn, and sugarcane. (For more on that topic, see “Biofuels' Downsides Prompt Europeans to Backpedal” and “Corn-Based Fuel Fares Poorly in New Analysis”.)

Steven Loffler, Ph.D. of CSIRO Forest Biosciences stressed two points in the agency’s press release (CSIRO 2008):

• “By making changes to the chemical process, we’ve been able to create a concentrated bio-crude which is much more stable than that achieved elsewhere in the world.”
• “This makes it practical and economical to produce bio-crude in local areas for transport to a central refinery, overcoming the high costs and greenhouse gas emissions otherwise involved in transporting bulky green wastes over long distances.”

It has not been economically feasible to use plant wastes, such as forest thinnings and straw, to make biofuels and eco-friendly chemicals, because of the high cost of trucking the bulky waste hundreds of miles for processing.

There have been attempts in the past, but the resulting bio-oil has been unstable and turned into bitumen within a few weeks.

The Furafuel process creates a stable “bio-crude” that can be shipped to bio-fuel refineries, just as crude oil is carried to conventional petrochemical refineries.

The liquid can then be converted either into fuel replacements – gasoline and diesel substitutes or ethanol – or, using current technology, into benign, value-added polymers and industrial chemicals.

Once final laboratory trials are completed, CSIRO and Monash University intend to apply for a patent on the Furafuel process. 
 

Source

• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). Dr Steven Loffler: turning timber residues into biofuels. Accessed online February 4, 2008 at http://www.csiro.au/people/Steven.Loffler.html
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). Bio-crude turns cheap waste into valuable fuel. Accessed online February 4, 2008 at http://www.csiro.au/news/ValuableFuel.html