"In ???Better Living Through Chemurgy,??? reporter Vijay Vaitheeswaran compares today???s industrial biotechnology companies with the chemurgy movement of Henry Ford, who sought to make cars and fuels from agricultural products, and George Washington Carver, who developed hundreds of industrial uses ??? paints, dyes, glues ??? for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other crops that would diversify the co" . . . .