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If I use this to fertilize my veggies, are they still vegan?
Two factors to consider id say. Blood isn’t the only organic source of nitrogen so it’s not as if its necessary, thus I’d wager many vegans would consider it unnecessary animal suffering, at least in theory. However the caveat, and second factor, would be blood is byproduct, no ones killing the animals in order to obtain blood meal so many people including vegans may think it more ethical to not let it go to waste since weather or not there’s a demand for blood meal, there will still be animal blood that needs to be disposed of.
Strictly dietarialy, yes they would still be vegan. All soil is full of countless formless decomposed animals and plants, it’s an inescapable reality of how the soil came to be. It can only get more ethically involved when you choose to add it yourself imo.
That second point would require intimate knowledge about which animal parts would be disposed of if they didn’t find a buyer.
In reality, everything is used. If there wasn’t a market for part of an animal, a use was found and a market created (which is part of the reason why industrially produced white sugar, beer, wine, apple juice, potato chips and bread usually aren’t vegan).Anyway, vegans usually don’t care about whether an animal product could be leftover. Their philosophy boils down to “Just fucking leave animals in peace.”
Their philosophy boils down to “Just fucking leave animals in peace.”
It’s more complicated than that unless you don’t understand how many animals die when you clear farmland. Every crop you eat came at a cost to animals, if there’s no amount you deem acceptable or unavoidable your only option is to exclusively eat food you grew yourself, and that still alters the environment to be less favorable to animals, you just don’t directly kill them like large scale farms do.
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Im no expert but I hear nutrient levels in soils is trending in the wrong direction in general. Composting efforts need to become serious and as ubiquitous as recycling. Props to California for their efforts on that front.
The acceptable amount = refrain from hurting animals “as much as possible and practicable”. That takes care of all the gotchas and the well actuallys.
It makes sense to clarify. There are many dishes made with blood, black pudding and blood sausage comes to mind.
Also it’s good to let people know because dogs absolutely love that shit and you have to be careful to keep it out of areas dogs can get at it.
I worked in a green house and one customer’s dog dug up an entire tree she planted to get at the blood meal she put in the bottom of the hole. Dog was okay, but needed to stay at the vets a few days to monitor the vomiting and their iron levels.
I mean, it says it’s a meal right on the front. /s
what fucked up tumblr subculture has my shitpost reached
I’ve never been on tumblr and just assumed the whole site was like that.
I feel like the tumblr user asking why it’s necessary to tell people not to eat blood meal must have forgotten they’re on tumblr. The whole site is just smut curated by the generation that turned eating tide pods into a meme.
Uhm, hello, it says blood MEAL, so of course it’s made to be eaten.
In that case you’re gonna love bone meal.
Look, how else am I supposed to prepare for the skeleton war?
My first thought was if it could be rehydrated and used as a more easily acquired prop blood, as opposed to pig’s blood.
My first thought was “this is a much easier way for a Vampire to eat than stealing from a blood bank.”
If animal blood is acceptable then I’m not really sure why stealing from a blood bank would be a primary course of action in the first place…
In many cultures blood, sometimes dried is used in cooking.
For example blood sausage and blood pancakes are eaten in finland
Tumblr goths, ffs.
Why would you find eating blood disgusting? You know where meat comes from, right? And why it’s red?
Iron helps us play!
Is this an US thing? I’m fairly certain I’ve never seen that in Germany
No, you can find this in garden shops in Europe.
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Look, nobody is saying you should eat the whole bag, but a teaspoon every so often as a treat maybe?
Could it serve as an iron supplement?
