Are animal bones or fish guts used to fertilize fruit/veg crops?!
Are animal bones or fish guts used to fertilize fruit/veg crops?
I heard on a fishing programme that the body of crabs are useless & get turned into fertilizer. As I'm a pescatarian, I can cope with that, it doesn't mean I think it's right though.
But does anyone know if cow bones etc get put on our fruit/vegetable crops too though. And if it is, is there any way to know which ones please.
Answers: Fertilizers of various kinds are made from the remains and feces of animals as well as reprocessed sewage. There really isnt' a way to know ahead of time unless you are on-site when the fertilizer is being used. Yes the bones of cattle, chickens, pigs, horses...really all domestic animals (including euthinized cats & dogs) can end up ground up as fertilizer. (Bone meal)
It's real common for the blood of the slaughtered animals to be turned to blood meal also.
There really is no way to know what crops have these fertilizers applied, unless you speak directly to the farmers.
Stay away from organics...they would be more likely to contain the bone/blood fertilizers.
Instead eat the mass produced crops, from the mega agra businessmen. They are fertilized with chemicals with are petrolium based. They contain high levels of salts and nitrates and are destroying the soils and poisoning the drinking water, and the water fish live in.
I'm sure you feel like I'm picking on you, but that is the truthful reality of farming.
~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years I gotta agree with Garnet. Very briefly, organic farming = animal products and conventional farming = artificial and environmentally unfriendly. Your only option is to buy from a vegetarian organic farmer who uses only plant-based fertilizers. Eating crops grown with any of these products doesn't contribute to the death or even suffering of any animals whatsoever. They came from the Earth and they should be returned to it after the meat industry uses them up like nothing. If you want to live on an island or grow your own food out in the middle of nowhere, you'll have animal free crops, but you won't really help animals because you won't be living as a visible example of a conscientious consumer. I agree with kruster