Can Vegans eat vegetables grown in animal manure?!
Just curious.
Answers: Just seems weird that they would even think of it because of the animal waste and all.
Just curious.
No.
That would be supporting the meat and dairy industries. The manure is purchased from these industries. If you are going to use these products there's no reason not to use products with rendered animal parts in them. The produce that manure is used on may also be fertilized with rendered animal parts as well. That's how they fertilize organic produce that's grown on a commercial scale. The others don't use animal products. One uses animal products, one doesn't. Which is vegan???
To the first answerer, they use the manure on the organics, not the non-organics.
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Yes. some vegans cannot afford to buy organic all the time so there are exceptions.
Well, animal manure is a natural fertilizer, and where is it going to go otherwise?
If vegetables might have been grown in a field that was fertilized with animal waste, I would still eat them.
Collecting the dung and using it isn't harming or killing the animal.
One responder said that some folks cannot afford organic...for me personally, I would much rather buy from a local, non-organic farm than some huge organic one that is hundreds or thousands of miles away from me. A lot of the small, local farms around here would prefer to keep the cost for the customer down and therefore do not seek organic certification, though their farms are clean, efficient and cruelty-free.
All in all, it doesn't bother me.
Can we eat them? Well, technically, yes we can.
Do we want to? Sounds gross to me. There are plenty of plant-based natural fertilizers and mulches that exist and can be made from home, too, that are far safer to human health than manure. However, if choosing between manure and chemicals, ehh... I'd go with water, sunlight, good soil, and a good farmer. At the grocery, I unfortunately have to pick up veggies and hope for the best.
Does eating manure-grown veggies fit with our general ideology? Well, we'll all take different views with this one. No one person can speak for an entire group, really.
Yea, its not a big deal
Yes.
And in response to previous answers, "organic" does not mean that it wasn't fertilized with manure. It means, by definition, that the "crops were grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers, human waste, or sewage sludge, and that they were processed without ionizing radiation or food additives."
Manure may be used, but cannot contain "pesticides, herbicides, hormones, medicated feed, or antibiotics or chemicals used in food processing"
So the manure would have to come from cows who were not on factory farms.