Drudge recently had a post concerning a process whereby byproducts from a poultry operation would be used to "fractionate" all kinds of useful materials and even something like crude oil. A plant is being built. I can't see why someone from PETA wouldn't work just as well as chicken feet and feathers etc.
Thermal Depolymerization. Perhaps one of the most important technologies going, should it work as billed.
The plant is outside Carthage, MO near a Con-Agra turkey processing plant and should already be online.
Warren Buffet and his son have their fingers in this already.