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Apr 26, 2010 at 5:33 pm #1602460AnonymousInactive
"Don C? Link please?"
Oops, my bad…again. I edited the original post. It should be clear now. Everyone has a bad day once in a while. Well, in my case, maybe a litle more frequently than that. :(
Apr 26, 2010 at 5:37 pm #1602462Ah, OK. All clear now. :)
Apr 26, 2010 at 11:31 pm #1602615I'm all for vegetarians you guys should unite! You can live on some kind of land thing with gates, eating organic veggies and running free. I will then come and harvest you one by one for my burgers. :P
Bt seriously, that's jacked up we're losing money on this at 3 bucks a cow.
Apr 27, 2010 at 4:08 pm #1602900AnonymousInactive"I will then come and harvest you one by one for my burgers. :P"
If we don't harvest you for our compost piles first. ;-]
Apr 27, 2010 at 4:42 pm #1602908Now, Tom, that is mean! :)
Apr 27, 2010 at 4:43 pm #1602910""I will then come and harvest you one by one for my burgers. :P"
If we don't harvest you for our compost piles first. ;-]"
That's a very wasteful and expensive way to make compost. Speaking of poo (a lot lately on this site), we could at least harvest the poos of meateaters for our compost piles, plus the blood and bone from all the bits of animals they wastefully throw away.
I once raised a vegetarian cat. Dogs are even easier to raise as vegetarians, but they still gotta poo somewhere.
Apr 27, 2010 at 5:06 pm #1602919This might be the moment to mention that many people — Tibetans, Nepalese, Indians, etc. — collect cow / yak dung, mold them into 'cakes', dry them under the sun and use them as fuel for cooking and heating.
Years ago, upon learning this, my first reaction was "eeewww"!! But when I traveled to Tibet last year — I was surprised that there was no stench at all; in fact, it was almost pleasant smelling! The locals explained that was because their yak ate only grass.
Apr 27, 2010 at 7:16 pm #1602955""I will then come and harvest you one by one for my burgers. :P"
If we don't harvest you for our compost piles first. ;-]"
Sooooo, if you harvest humans {meat} for a compost pile, then use that compost to feed plants, then eat those plants, wouldn't that make the plants, and you, meat eaters in a round-about way?
Mmmmmm, people-burgers……
Apr 27, 2010 at 7:32 pm #1602962Travis:
It's no different than an animal dying a natural death decomposing into the soil and then sucked up again as nutrients by plant roots.
Apr 27, 2010 at 7:53 pm #1602972AnonymousInactive"Now, Tom, that is mean!"
Nah. Even vegetarians man up when they're faced with the prospect of ending up as the guest of honor at some cannibal's Weber party.
Or at least we talk a good game. ;}
Apr 27, 2010 at 8:03 pm #1602979AnonymousInactive"That's a very wasteful and expensive way to make compost."
Au contraire, ma cherie. It would be wasteful to just leave him lying there. Besides, our little aerobic buddies don't give a poo where their meals come from. Cheap, too. Delivered right to my doorstep.
"we could at least harvest the poos of meateaters for our compost piles"
The Asians have been doing it for millennia. Even up in the Khumbu, in Nepal, every crapper is set up to compost human poo. There's a basket of leaves in every one and you throw a few handfuls in when you're done. The crapper is built into a hillside with a trap door down at the bottom, on the side. They pull the finished compost out there and spread it on their fields. It's such a marginal environment for agriculture that they can't afford to waste a thing. Same idea everywhere in East Asia. They closed the loop long ago. Wise people.
Apr 27, 2010 at 8:10 pm #1602984AnonymousInactive" Tibetans, Nepalese, Indians, etc. — collect cow / yak dung, mold them into 'cakes', dry them under the sun and use them as fuel for cooking and heating."
They make great organic Frisbees, too.
Apr 27, 2010 at 8:21 pm #1602986Oh, I know, Ben. I was just having a bit of rhetorical fun.
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