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    Anonymous
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    "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. :(

    #1602462
    EndoftheTrail
    BPL Member

    @ben2world-2

    Ah, OK. All clear now. :)

    #1602615
    Alex Gilman
    BPL Member

    @vertigo

    Locale: Washington

    I'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.

    #1602900
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    "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. ;-]

    #1602908
    EndoftheTrail
    BPL Member

    @ben2world-2

    Now, Tom, that is mean! :)

    #1602910
    Lynn Tramper
    Member

    @retropump

    Locale: The Antipodes of La Coruna

    ""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.

    #1602919
    EndoftheTrail
    BPL Member

    @ben2world-2

    This 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.

    #1602955
    Travis Leanna
    BPL Member

    @t-l

    Locale: Wisconsin

    ""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……

    #1602962
    EndoftheTrail
    BPL Member

    @ben2world-2

    Travis:

    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.

    #1602972
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    "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. ;}

    #1602979
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    "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.

    #1602984
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    " 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.

    #1602986
    Travis Leanna
    BPL Member

    @t-l

    Locale: Wisconsin

    Oh, I know, Ben. I was just having a bit of rhetorical fun.

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