What is Vegan Organic Farming? It Means No Poop!

I have friends who are vegan—I’m sure you do too—and most of them are pretty ardent about it, which is great. If you’re going to do something, go all the way with it.

But this might be taking it a little too far. Farming with no animals involved, not even poop! That means no manure fertilizer.

Using poop seems totally natural to me, but for the Vegan Organic Network, it’s got to be totally animal-free.

The vegan agriculture movement promotes farming methods that involve no “animal inputs” which excludes many common kinds of soil-enrichments, such as fish meal, bone meal, manure or the remains from slaughterhouses.

That seems a little weird to me. I don’t know about the other stuff, but using animal poop is perfectly natural and it doesn’t hurt the animal. They have to poop! So why not use it? That’s where I think vegan farming is a little kooky.

But this part is cool. Since it’s an organic movement, it involves no artificial chemicals or pesticides. The group says the overall approach is for the well-being of humans, social justice, animal welfare, biodiversity and environmental sustainability.

This is all well and good, but you have to show poop some love!

Via TreeHugger.

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