AllEmailDeletedImmediately wrote:
> "John A. Weeks III" > wrote in message
> ...
>> In article <AJQPg.6453$uj3.1639@trnddc08>,
>> "AllEmailDeletedImmediately" > wrote:
>>
>>> "Dave Bugg" > wrote in message
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>>>> AllEmailDeletedImmediately wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> well perhaps the thermostat was wrong for one batch? who'd know?
>>>> And your mom might have forgotten to wash her hands after doing #2 and
>>>> handling raw chicken prior to making your peanut butter sandwich. Who'd
>>>> know?
>>> exactly. that still doesn't mean it's okay to spread any form of human
>>> waste on crops.
>> Check out the website for Metrogro, the Madison, Wisconsin,
>> Metro Sewer System. They take the output product from the
>> sewer system, called "bio solids", and truck them to farms
>> all over Dane County for spreading on farm fields. They have
>> been doing this since the early 1980's that I know of, and
>> it doesn't seem to have created any problems that I have
>> heard of.
>>
>
> then perhaps we should start bio-soliding dog and cat crap. yum.
>
> i'm not a farmer, but i come from a long line of them. here it is:
>
> first rule: never fertilize w/ the poopy of any meat-eating animal.
> second rule: always allow the poopy from vegetation-eating
> animals to compost before using it.
>
>

The above would be hard to do now. From what I understand, anamals, such
as cows, and chickens that are suppose to eat a veg based diet, are
being fed meat by-products, and processeed fecal matter as a way to
boost the protein on the food.

I wonder if all that can cause problems like we are starting to see now?

Rob