

I’m sorry to hear the internet is being shit
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If your vegan anarchist grandma and vegan anarchist dad were the same person.
I’m an engineer who cosplays as a vegan farmer. I live in un-ceded Anishinabe Algonquin territory.
I’m sorry to hear the internet is being shit
The last concert I went to was Movements. My husband is a fan, so we went. I had a nice time.
I don’t know if I have a favorite genre. I think I can find music I like in most genres so long as I’m in the right mood tbh. I recently went to a training where this was the icebreaker and I did the most stereotypical neurodivergent 1000 yard stare and then I think answered industrial. I like music that gives me good brain chemicals.
Look at those FAT BEANS! 10/10 would gobble.
Friend, please be mindful of rule 5:
- Do not use trademarked brands
Use generic names. We’re cooking with tvp not whatever business brands it and we’re not trying to turn comrades into billboards. No plant-based vegan-pandering capitalist crap like Impossible, Beyond, Dairy-company owned “vegan” cheese.
Folks should also be aware that the company conducted taste tests with animal flesh as part of developing the product.
You’re a champ!
I hope you will share your homebrew experiments it sounds super coo!
Hell yeah for the month without ethanol! You rule!
- Which fields of science are you particularly fascinated by, and can you tell us a niche or exciting tidbit relating to it?
I feel like I make people regret asking this type of question because I will NOT SHUT UP. I work in wastewater and it’s the most fascinating, expansive, exciting, problem-riddled field out there (to me). I am already late for work so I will just drop this baddie:
That thing that’s pulsing in the middle? That’s it’s MF-ing JAW. This fascinating creature CHEWS. I love them.
- What is your favourite vegetable(s)?
I prefer fruits in general, but I love brassicas. Choys especially.
I’ve been streaming in the microwave, while reheating my rice! I buy bagged, pre-chopped kale because it removes the barriers to getting it inside me.
I can’t believe I slept on steamed kale. Raw is fine too, but sometimes I don’t want to chew quite so much.
Oh good, now I can bee more aware
I’m hanging out on an electric blanket 🏡
I love it because I take it to mean definitely not vegan
I didn’t realize this was a vegan instance, I am not promoting the use of these products, just answering OPs question.
No worries, I figured that is what was going on. I wanted to get it out there because I agree your comments were not promoting it but I thought you were missing some important context.
On a side note: Does worm casings or worm tea go against vegan principles?
In my opinion, yes. I agree with Naeve’s comment but will add that for me the concept of speciesm is important. Other beings are here with us, not for us.
My soil is full of worms and life. I get bunny poop deposits regularly. I achieve this by creating an environment where they have food and a nice place to exist.
That’s amazing! Most of my neighbors just have grass on their land and leave the clippings there but I should definitely ask around. We have municipal compost but I compost everything that I can at home.
I think most farms use synthetic fertilizers but every organic farm I have worked on and every organic farmer I know uses some variation of the above as their primary soil amendments along with plant compost and worm byproducts.
You didn’t mention your location but for example the USDA definition of organic required that ‘most’ synthetic fertilizers are not used. I’m not questioning your experience, I’m just stating that by nature of being a farmer seeking certification as organic they choose to exclude most synthetics for reasons of certification - not necessarily because it’s less expensive or ‘better’.
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/blog/organic-101-what-usda-organic-label-means
Produce can be called organic if it’s certified to have grown on soil that had no prohibited substances applied for three years prior to harvest. Prohibited substances include most synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
Please be aware that this is a vegan gardening community. You’ve provided an answer to to OP based on your experience, which is fine but please understand that promotion of the use of animal bodies in gardening is not welcome.
100% a way to squeeze more profit out of all the murdering.
Tina Hull specializes in making small farms profitable and is a recognized authority in organic fertilizer, according to the following article in the Commodity Futures Trader. And while the fish processing industry is looking for ways of utilizing the inedible waste from their plants for ever higher purposes, some material may be best suited for the production of agricultural fertilizer- liquid, fish emulsion organic fertilizer.
Once again, we need to repeat that organic growers need not worry that fish emulsion fertilizer is depleting our oceans of the important Menhaden fish or other fish that people need for food. Fish emulsion if primarily made from fish waste of the established animal feed and fish oil industries, which would have been dumped in landfills if not used.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956053X20303913
Fish industries generate a substantial amount of FW (fish waste). Depending on the level of processing or type of fish, 30–70% of the original fish is FW.
The amount of FW available in Norway for production of fertilizers may facilitate the establishment of an industrial product that can replace the currently common use of dried poultry manure from conventional farming in organic farming.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3614052/
Efficient utilization of by-products has direct impact on the economy and environmental pollution of the country. Non-utilization or under utilization of by-products not only lead to loss of potential revenues but also lead to the added and increasing cost of disposal of these products
Waste products from the poultry processing and egg production industries must be efficiently dealt with as the growth of these industries depends largely on waste management.
The United States Dept. of Agriculture Economic Research Service has found that 11.4% of the gross income from beef is from the by-products. The figure for pork is 7.5%.
Meat and bone meal (MBM) was widely recommended and used in animal nutrition as a protein source in place of proteinaceous feeds because of its content of available essential amino acids, minerals and vitamin B12. MBM and related rendered protein commodities have potential for use in applications other than animal feed, including use as a fuel or a phosphorus fertilizer
I don’t believe you are correct in stating that animal products are cheaper, or that commercial agriculture prefers it:
Issues with the product:
Despite these attributes, there are economic and environmental challenges to expanding the use of manure as a fertilizer. With a low nutrient value-to-mass ratio, manure is more costly to transport, store, and apply than chemical fertilizers. In addition, livestock production tends to be geographically concentrated in the United States, and, in certain regions, animal production generates more manure-supplied nutrients than are needed by nearby cropland. That means farmers often must transport manure longer distances to match its nutrient value with crop needs. Specifically, the nitrogen and phosphorus levels in manure often do not match the nutrient needs of crops, so farmers still must use chemical fertilizers to supplement nutrients from manure. Also, applying enough manure to meet a crop’s needs for one nutrient has the potential to create an environmental hazard from the unused nutrients left on the soil. Excess manure nutrients can leave the fields via run-off and degrade water quality, or they can enter the air.
Manure is not widely used:
A recent study by USDA, Economic Research Service identified opportunities for increasing the use of manure as a fertilizer. In 2020, farmers applied manure to less than 8 percent of the 237.7 million acres planted to seven major U.S. field crops.
Manure use is dependant on local industry:
Manure is expensive to transport, and local animal production largely determines the type of manure applied to regional crops. For example, because most hogs are produced in the Midwest, hog manure is applied predominately to corn and soybeans. Most chickens are raised in the Southeastern United States, so most animal waste applied to crops grown primarily in the South, such as cotton and peanuts, originates from poultry farms.
I don’t use animal products intentionally. I can’t know for certain if soil I buy contains compost that includes animal manure, but other than that nope.
It’s really hard to find compost but if you don’t need the bulk and you just need the PKN, synthetics are readily available. We’ve been growing plants specialty to compost so that we can get that bulky material to add to our heavy clay soil.
Personally I use synthetic on houseplants and alfalfa meal/kelp meal outside.
Are you familiar with Whole Foods Plant Based (WFPB)? That might be what you are looking for. Quite a few members eat this way.
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