I think there's a big conspiracy to make as many people as possible in America fat, lazy and stupid so that in a decade or so there'll be some kind of mass reaping of the fats when fossil fuels run out. I hope so anyway, then I don't have to look or interact with them anymore.  Thermodynamically inaccurate.  It would be much more efficient to just burn/store/convert the food directly.  However I feel like your point was more rhetorical.