Can vegans use their poo as fertiliser?!
Can vegans use their poo as fertiliser?
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Industrialized countries tend to frown upon using "night soil" as fertilizer, no matter the "contributers" diet.
er yuck! good question though!
Not a chance.
Actually, yes, I believe they can. You can't use waste that contains animal products in fertilizer - it would smell too bad.
Human feces cannot be used as fertilizer directly. If used at all, they would have to be processed and dried first.
No. Human feces can carry hazardous microbes, regardless of the producer's diet.
Bobbin said: <<< I don't think so, somehow. The plants wouldn't get all the nutrients they need, seeing as vegans' diets are so limited.>>>
Cows are only supposed to eat grass, and their poo is often used as fertiliser, so how come you find a vegan diet limited, our diet has more variety than theirs??
I dont really know the answer, but I would guess that meat eaters poo would kill plants rather than help them grow, with all those hormones they get through meat and dairy. Yuck.
No. As a matter of fact, human faces, vegan or not, should never be used to fertilize edible plants. Remember the outbreak of e-coli in tea a few years back?
As long as the poo is very well composted and completely broken down into soil/fertilizer, then any poo is OK. But one should never put any kind of non-composted poo or other non-composted matter onto their crops -- it would just ruin the crop and also be a health hazard, as we've all heard of that tainted spinach -- would never have happened if it wasn't just raw un-composted or partially composted poo.
why not just waz on your compot heap instead? you will still get the same sense of achievement and its good for it.....................
It's not the same as cow or horse fertiliser.
I once had a friend ask me if my poo stinks since I am a vegan. He figured since all I eat is whole foods and grains and stuff it would just come out as some sort of wonder-produce.
I kindly told him that pretty much anything that goes through the amount of processing our digestive systems provide, all of which is done a hot, moist environment, 10 hours later it will smell regardless. Maybe not as bad as a steak that has been sitting in your re