I have been gardening this block for 5 years, not an enormous time, but I don’t use animal products to fertilise I just use compost/mulching/weed tea/and cover crops.

Everything seems fine. Yet every gardening show or whatever will be like “slather that manure and blood and bone on each year, use fish emulsion, fucking sacrifice your firstborn on that shit”. Am I an idiot or do you just not need to do any of that?

edit: not looking for the peanut gallery. Interested in opinions from people who don’t use animal products and what their experience has been.

  • NaevaTheRat [she/her]@vegantheoryclub.orgOPEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Does worm casings or worm tea go against vegan principles?

    In general yes. Veganism is about respecting other living being’s right to live unmolested. Worms farms artificially constrain the lives of creatures which may not appreciate that, and the process of breeding and distributing them harms many.

    It is completely vegan to say have a compost pile open to the ground and make it attractive to worms, provided of course you’re not making a deathtrap etc. But worm farms tend to be about preventing worms from leaving. I can’t think of a way to collect the liquid that wouldn’t interfere with their ability to burrow.

    You might think this absurd, but we literally don’t know how consciousness arises or how widespread it is. Because we don’t need to have worm farms, and worms may not enjoy being interfered with, it is a position of unjustified arrogance to risk harm for our convenience.