Are Organic Vegetables Suitable for Vegetarians?!
I did get a good one answer from....Thirsty Drink Me who gave this link..
http://www.api4animals.org/articles?p=37...
Personally I prefer to wash of Chemicals from my Veg than Animal byproducts....So I'm going non organic for Veg.
Answers: I posted a different version of this with little response so I'm trying again...
I did get a good one answer from....Thirsty Drink Me who gave this link..
http://www.api4animals.org/articles?p=37...
Personally I prefer to wash of Chemicals from my Veg than Animal byproducts....So I'm going non organic for Veg.
Dietary vegetarians, yes.
Ethical vegetarians, no.
Here's the link again. Just so you know, you can't cut and paste a link from here that ends in ".......". That means there is more to the link than what is showing. You need to click on the link and then cut and paste the link from that site.
http://www.api4animals.org/articles?p=37...
Organic vegetables are made from meat so no they are not OK for vegetarians!
my organic fields are not fertilised with animal parts or manure, so its not so cut and dried as made out. The veggies only acount for 7 acres and are used by a co-operative so they have complete control over the end-to-end process. If people really want to buy ethical products, they would buy locally rather than from mass-commercial farms that supply supermarkets.
permanent pasture is definately fertilised with animal manure, but not root crop land, not mine anyway, and not cereals ( the bulk of my land )
There is also no need to fertilise permanent pasture but unfortunately people insisting on paying pence for thier meat so animal density is higher than pasture can normally cope with - hence the need to fertilise to improve soil so grass grows in winter.
You could argue that no veggie or vegan should eat veggies becuase you are paying to support the lorry driver who delivered them and s/he might be a meat eater.
and i guess they should not be using a computer because (a) it contains animal parts and (b) Curt from IT support is a meateater
the world is a big "system" that has created a dependence on animal parts. At some point, you will find everyone has a connection with dead animals.
Organic is better than swallowing pesticides, or buying crap from Monsanto drenched in Round-up. (It doesn't all wash off you know.)
If pesticides weren't harmful, farm workers wouldn't have a life expectancy of 42. They have a nasty habit of getting cancer.
My produce guy says he only uses compost, and that it sounds like a myth to him. (Like posts from meat eaters saying "Carrots can feel pain.")
This is a difficult one, but do bear in mind that chemical farming kills far more animals than organic farming does, as a vegan I know that there is not such thing as the perfect vegan in this imperfect world. I personally choose organic and wash it well.
All vegetables can and are fertilized with manure. Especially as petrochemical prices go up you will see a lot more conventional farmers using raw manure on their fields 9and this is alreadu a very common practise).
That said most organic farms use composted manures (among the many thing used for fertility on an organic farm) and know that compost and manure use on organic farms is very strictly regulated. This is not the case of non organic farms. On a conventional they can apply manure right up until harvest. On an organic farm application of raw manure cannot happen within 6 months of harvest and most organic growers use compost instead of raw manures for a variety of reasons including safety (e-coli and other pathogens are cooked out of compost).
So organic food, in that respect, is likely safer than conventionally grown food. Also manure is not considered a carcinogen, some of the chemicals used in agriculture are and, in many cases, cannot be washed off the food.