Do Vegans (or vegetarians) have a problem with vegetables grown with manure?!
Answers: I ask this question because even though manure is organic, manure only exists in large quantities because of the existence of the beef and dairy industry. I would think that would kind run contrary to the tenets of your cause.
ROFLMAO!!!!! Love it!!!! Just freaking love it!
You can use green manure - which comes from plants. Certain plants enrich the soil (Clover as an example) while growing, then you till them under to decompose. But then that would mean growing some plants at the EXPENSE of other plants. I wouldn't think that would be acceptable either would it?
Miracle grow adds sodium to the soil so you can't use that either.
Certainly can't use mushroom compost, b/c mushrooms had to die to make that.
Fish fertilizer? Nope, fish had to die to make that. I can't think of anything else..
Guess there are no ways to grow plants that require fertilizer then are they?
I have thought about this my self too. Of course it would be ideal if we could avoid animal based fertilizer for food (blood & bone, fish etc.). But it is simply not viable to exclude veggies grown in animal based fertilizer. We would have to call every single producer to find out how & where they grow their products. We could never eat out because we couldn’t ensure the food was grown in non-animal fertiliser. If on the other hand I had my own veggie patch (which I hope to start some day) I could control what goes on it. In that case no, I would not used animal based fertilizer, id use compost etc…
Great question though.
The cows out back in the pasture behind my property - are NOT from meat or dairy market - just the man that lives on the back side of my property that has about 30 cows.
I will admit - I DID CLIMB the fence a few weeks - and got some of their - - err - - cow patties - - to put on my rose garden..... (maybe THAT is how I got this nasty case of poison ivy)......
As for the vegetables and such - I have found a great source to buy what I need to help to grow healthy veggies that doesn't mean that I am eating food grown in 'poo'...
I believe everyone has the right to make the choice that fits their own belief - vegetarian, vegan, or whatever - everyone has the right to live and make personal choices - it's called freedom of choice.
I didn't sign a bunch of 'tenets' of any cause because of what and how I eat or live or the choices I make - I just live them and don't bind them on anyone else.
I don't think about it much because I buy local and organic...but do you want to know something really nasty?
Corporate farming manure is almost unusable, it is full of antibiotics and pesticides, really bad, pollutes the water and the earth....
BUT what is really really nasty?
Many non-organic cash crop farms use human feces for their plants.....so I buy organic...People feces must be so toxic compared to animals, bleh, freaks me out.
Sorry, I didn't answer your question, but I found this out a little while ago and was so shocked.