organic farming?

[Guest guest]

Just fromt he quantities I imagine would be involved I would guess that

the sources are not organic. Which makes me question their ability to

call the end product organic?

I am not sure if these practises are allowed in Australia or in Europe.

The whole rendering process is pretty unappealing and now with the mad

cows disease issues these topics are quite pressing.

R wrote:

The next question is, where does the

bonemeal/bloodmeal come

from? Organic, free-range, grassfed animals??? Why am I

guessing not!?!

It seems to me that the problem isn't so much the

decomposed/decomposing

animal products used in organic farming as it is the whole issue of

mass

farming. After all, soil (at least the soil that plants will

actually grow in) is in large part composed of organic matter,

including

decomposed animal matter. I give great thanks to all the animals

who die and their bodies decompose so that I may eat fresh, healthy

plants.

The problem lies in the fact that large scale farming cannot be

maintained within the natural soil cycle. In large scale farming,

an artificial means of incorporating organic matter into the soil must

be

used; so, they turn to bonemeal and bloodmeal. Actually I'm rather

glad they do. In my mind this is a terrific use of these animal

byproducts - assuming they were from organically raised animals .

Where would this "trash" from the animal industry be going if

not used in this manner? -- probably someplace even further away from

where it belongs in the natural cycle of life and death.

:-\ --

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