Re: Composting manure



even our Dear Jackie

Who?

jackie french, gardener extraordinaire.

Oh, thanks.


It sounds as though Dear Jackie is a politician. They're politicians
because they have no specialist ideas as a rule. If they had they'd be
earning honest money.

ya, but she's not one :-)

LOL! they're not unique.

i've noticed in gardening that sometimes otherwise sensible people (even
me!! ;-) will sincerely believe something that's actually completely
illogical and maybe even nuts. noticed the same thing concerning animals &
livestock a lot too. well, in fact, it's probably across the board of
human endeavours <g>. BUT because gardening (and livestock) involves food
(often), some people get a bit carried away with their weirdities at times
& feel obliged to say illogical things that probably if it wasn't
food-related, they'd not bother saying or thinking about. i don't know.

True.

(i suppose it's one of those subjects where, once a person has had a
sincere belief for a thousand years, it's hard for them to realise it
might be illogical after all.)

Indeed.

one good example pertaining to this group might be: the (apparent[?] ...
do correct me if i'm wrong) ban in the u.k. on chickens eating cooked meat
which isn't even a chicken and isn't anything's brain either. it's not
logical. but it involves food, so hey. ban it.

It's true but it's nothing to do with brain or nerve material, that would be
linked to BSE.

A couple of years ago we had a terrible outbreak of foot and mouth disease,
resulting in very many animals being killed and burnt and a lot of farmers
being put out of business or even committing suicide. It was awful.

The thinking is that it was caused by feeding pigs on infected meat. There
are some countries where F&M is endemic and we're not supposed to import
meat from those places - the same is true, I suspect, in your country. It's
a sensible precaution.

In an attempt to prevent a future outbreak of this dreadful disease it was
decided to ban any feeding of meat or kitchen waste to any animal or bird
which was normally part of the human food chain, even if that animal or bird
was a pet. So it's illegal to feed our pet chickens (which we might eat and
we certainly eat their eggs) with anything which originates in our kitchen
or other catering establishment. That includes anything, even carrot
peelings.

It seems like an over-reaction - but where do the legislators draw the line?
It's a very difficult decision.

As it happens I wouldn't feed waste from any other source than our own
kitchen, if it isn't fit for us to eat it's not fit for our pets. - or
anything we're going to eat.

But I must stress that this law is nothing to do with BSE, that condition
resulted in other legislation.

Mary


kylie



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