Hidden Relationship

I had a thought about a hidden relationship between vegetarians and vegans and meat-eaters that they probably do not want to acknowledge.

If you ask the vast majority of vegetarians (I am including vegans in this analysis although I do know the difference but for the sake of this posting, what I am about to say applies to both) they are also at the forefront of the organic movement as well. This is understandable when you think about it. After all, why would you embrace a plant-based diet and then also encounter what you would perceive as the hazards of the genetically-engineered fruits and vegetables and artificial fertilizers.

I could digress into the flaws of the organic movement, as I have before, but that really is a discussion for another day.

Instead, I would like to point out a thought that occurred to me. And that is fertilizer. You have to return nutrients to the land in order to grow crops. Now you can grow cover crops and “plow them under” to return the nutrients to the ground but that is not totally sufficient. And, in small, home-based, gardens you can probably get by with composting; in fact you may be able to obtain commercially compost in sufficient quantities for some small commercial operations but then you have to worry about the organic nature of the compost and this is still somewhat limited. No, that is not enough. Generally speaking, if you are going to have to use fertilizer, pure and simple. Good old manure; chicken, beef, horse, what have you. Animal droppings. The bigger the operation, the more you will need.

Not a problem. After all, there are organic chicken and beef farmers as well as organic milk producers who are ready and willing to provide the fertilizer necessary to keep the organic vegetable farmer up to knees in the stuff.

Where is the irony? The diehard vegans, and some vegetarians, espouse the philosophy of “meat stinks” and “meat is murder”. Well I guess they are entitled to their opinion, albeit ignorant. But meat is the reason they have their vegetables. Without meat, they have no food. Oh, they could use night soil. It has been used for centuries. And there are ongoing experiments in the use of it now. There are even articles on how to compost human waste for your very own fertilizer. I am just not sure that even most vegans are ready to have a honey bucket brigade in their neighborhood.

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