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compost problem
You dont have to worry. Nature has ways of disposing of the Human race
if it becomes too successful. Like in the move "war games, it starts again with a major disaster. 0tterbot wrote: "Stuart Naylor" wrote in message ... i know there's two schools of thought on poo: one is that all poo is good (that would be me) & the other that carnivorous or omnivorous poo is bad, only vegetarian poo is good. to me, the latter idea makes no sense - but anyway, why do you say that? In just a few words :-) Cow manure is considered safe and excellent for compost or direct in the garden but most dogs receive medications periodically to rid them of parasites and the medications can also kill compost worms. So first off there is a withholding period when dog poo can't be added to the worm farm. but you can add the poo later after it's sat for a while, if you are concerned :-) also, medications have changed - this may no longer be true in all cases. (well, i know horse medications have changed - one would need to find out concerning dog medication specifically). If a worm farm is used to compost dog poo then the worm farm needs to be fed dog poo exclusively otherwise if given a choice they tend to avoid or ignore the dog poo. Using a worm farm just to compost dog poo could be considered as a waste of a worm farm. afaik, the poo-farms are very small, not full-size. my dad had one. (he let it dry out even after i said it was too dry!! gah!!!) it was probably 50cm wide by 20cm high by (i don't know) something-similar deep. When dogs are taken for a walk in the street or down the local park who knows what bugs they could pick up. Fortunately most things would be most likely to pass through with their droppings. If their droppings are dug into the ground as a means of getting rid of them then the situation could be established where dogs could in future pick up those same bugs in your own backyard. The same could apply if the dog poo was added to a compost bin or worm farm, there is no guarantee that the composting would destroy those bugs so they could possibly survive composting and eventually still finish up in your garden. i tend not to think in those terms, but rather one of creating a balance, but anyway. (one reason of many i completely gave up on teh Mad Dog Newsgroup was there were too many people there that were just insane - i doubt most of them actually wanted their dogs to just be DOGS - they considered them to be some sort of higher species who needed to be actively protected from everything on earth and it was just nuts... but sorry, i'm getting off-track.) So the local council picks up dog poo here along with my garbage. thanks for your thoughts :-). where i am at is that i would like it if people thought once, twice, three times about everything that ends up in landfill, how it came to be that way, & whether we would need to have landfill at all if we could just get ourselves together & stop treating the earth like a rubbish dump. "garbage" is a resource, in the same way that weeds are merely plants we don't like to see become so successful in our micro-managed world. if our leavings aren't a genuine resource, i ask myself what we can do about that, because we need to think about these things. :-) kylie |
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