- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) English51•13 days ago
If I use this to fertilize my veggies, are they still vegan?
- nondescripthandle ( @nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English24•13 days ago
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.
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) English11•13 days ago
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.”
- nondescripthandle ( @nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English14•13 days ago
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.
- Yozul ( @yozul@beehaw.org ) English12•13 days ago
There’s also the pesky detail that if minerals in the soil are taken up into plants, and plants are then eaten by animals, then animals need to go back into the soil we grow our crops in or the the soils get depleted of minerals. That’s why most salt is iodized, because we’ve leached all the iodine out of our croplands and never put it back. There is only so much fossil fertilizer in the world. Eventually we are going to have to accept that we are part of nature instead of separate beings above it and doing things to it. Factory farming sucks and needs to end, but we can’t “Just fucking leave animals in peace.” we are not separate from them. They are us and we are them.
- nondescripthandle ( @nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•13 days ago
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.
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) English5•13 days ago
The acceptable amount = refrain from hurting animals “as much as possible and practicable”. That takes care of all the gotchas and the well actuallys.
- FiskFisk33 ( @FiskFisk33@startrek.website ) English23•13 days ago
It makes sense to clarify. There are many dishes made with blood, black pudding and blood sausage comes to mind.
- JovialMicrobial ( @JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee ) English11•12 days ago
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.
- Jolteon ( @Jolteon@lemmy.zip ) English20•13 days ago
I mean, it says it’s a meal right on the front. /s
- Deebster ( @Deebster@programming.dev ) English19•13 days ago
what fucked up tumblr subculture has my shitpost reached
I’ve never been on tumblr and just assumed the whole site was like that.
- nondescripthandle ( @nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English11•13 days ago
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.
- kungen ( @kungen@feddit.nu ) English13•13 days ago
Uhm, hello, it says blood MEAL, so of course it’s made to be eaten.
- nondescripthandle ( @nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•13 days ago
In that case you’re gonna love bone meal.
- smeg ( @smeg@feddit.uk ) English2•12 days ago
Look, how else am I supposed to prepare for the skeleton war?
- meowMix2525 ( @meowMix2525@lemm.ee ) English10•12 days ago
My first thought was if it could be rehydrated and used as a more easily acquired prop blood, as opposed to pig’s blood.
- SSJMarx ( @SSJMarx@lemm.ee ) English9•12 days ago
My first thought was “this is a much easier way for a Vampire to eat than stealing from a blood bank.”
- meowMix2525 ( @meowMix2525@lemm.ee ) English5•12 days ago
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…
- general_kitten ( @general_kitten@sopuli.xyz ) English8•12 days ago
In many cultures blood, sometimes dried is used in cooking.
For example blood sausage and blood pancakes are eaten in finland
- Hannes ( @hannesh93@feddit.org ) English3•13 days ago
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.
- CeruleanRuin ( @CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ) English3•11 days ago
Tumblr goths, ffs.
- Randomgal ( @Randomgal@lemmy.ca ) English3•12 days ago
Why would you find eating blood disgusting? You know where meat comes from, right? And why it’s red?
- sik0fewl ( @sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ) English3•13 days ago
Iron helps us play!
- 10_0 ( @10_0@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 days ago
This reminds me on PICA and ppl eating clay, don’t they get sick?
- dumbass ( @dumbass@leminal.space ) English2•12 days ago
Look, nobody is saying you should eat the whole bag, but a teaspoon every so often as a treat maybe?
- flamingo_pinyata ( @flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ) English1•11 days ago
Could it serve as an iron supplement?