April 15, 2009
Unintended Consequences of Being Green

New rules allow meat, fish and dairy scraps to be included in yard waste collected by the garbage public utilities and processed by a composting company. Question. May a vegetarian or a Muslim keeping Halal or a Jew keeping Kosher eat vegetables grown in a garden with mulch from the composting company? Just asking.


Posted by warrenpeterson at April 15, 2009 08:29 PM | Email This
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1. Grubs and worms die in mulch, naturally. How is this different?

Posted by: RSP on April 15, 2009 09:20 PM
2. In the days when such rules were written by man, there was no concern over such kinds of mulch therefore, no rules cover such. After all, it is organically grown, isn't it? The only rule here in the U.S. is you can't use human waste as a fertilizer which is blatantly Stupid. In China, they have been using human waste for perhaps, thousands of years and no problems.

Next time you have some of your relative's ashes to spread. Spread them in your vegatable garden.

Posted by: Daniel on April 15, 2009 09:24 PM
3. If they were that strict pretty much all dirt should be off limits as I can pretty much guarantee that at some part per million there is something that at one point was part of a forbidden species.

@2 Actually countries that use human waste as a fertilizer have much higher rates of all sorts of nasty illnesses.

Posted by: Giffy on April 15, 2009 09:35 PM
4. Get REAL!....Giffy. It is because those countries have less sanitation knowledge and available preventable help in the areas concerning Clean Water where many water born diseases occur. There are many other areas where lack of knowledge dealing with properly cooked foods, washing ones hands and so on. It has absolutely no bearing on the fertilizer that is used.

Case in Point; A plant is a natural filter. A plant first breaks down the fertilizing material to the basic chemical elements before it is brought into its system. That's why, if you use chemical fertilizers you will get a bumper crop because, the plant doesn't have to expend all that energy and time breaking down to the basic elements for absorption. Take the Tomato plant. If you fertilize with Horse Manure, the reason your Tomatoes don't taste like Horse Manure is because, the Tomato plant does First, breaks the fertilizer to it's basic elements before absorption. Get It?

Posted by: Daniel on April 15, 2009 10:06 PM
5. It's not a problem for Jews. Salmon is kosher. Salmon eat types of fish that are not kosher. Eating a plant that might come from dirt that includes animal matter is fine.

Posted by: Scott on April 15, 2009 10:37 PM
6. Daniel, ever get sludge from your local sewage plant? It makes the best tomato plants.

Posted by: swatter on April 16, 2009 12:00 PM
7. No...But I hear that it is Great fertilizer for tomato or any other plant.

Posted by: Daniel on April 16, 2009 02:04 PM
8. Well, I guess if you have a problem with it, youre not green.

Posted by: UnFit on April 17, 2009 03:30 PM
9. Speaking of Green Technology re: Global climate change (from Powerline 4/18/09):

In recent months, a key trend in American public opinion has emerged: voters are catching on to the global warming scam. It's hard to say why this is happening; certainly not because news coverage has gotten any more unbiased or scientifically accurate. Nevertheless, somehow the word is getting out: the alarmists are all wet.

Today's Rasmussen survey finds that public opinion is turning decisively against global warming alarmism, with 48 percent now attributing climate changes to "long-term planetary trends," with only 34 percent blaming "human activity." Only a year ago, those numbers were reversed. To be sure, there is plenty of room for more education; 62 percent say that global warming is at least a "somewhat serious" problem. But if it is driven mostly by natural cycles, it would be foolish in the extreme to hobble our economy with a pointless tax on carbon.

Members of the "political class" still buy into the alarmist theory, with 48 percent holding out for the "human activity" option. No surprise there: there is lots of money and power in it for them. But as far as the American people are concerned, the politicians and politicized scientists appear to be losing the argument.

Posted by: KS on April 18, 2009 10:09 PM
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