I don’t get how you can be against manure in any way. Used correctly there is close to no risk of any diseases getting to the end consumer. Usually you would apply manure before planting and by the time you harvest the crop too much time would have passed for any manure bacteria to survive.
Manure brings lots of benefits. We all know it brings nutrients but it also adds a lot of organic matter and very manure heavy plant cycles can even net store carbon in the soil. And if you wouldn’t use the manure where would you put it? We should all know those US style manure lagoons (poop lakes) are all environmental catastrophes. There is literally no better way to use manure than to spread it on crops. The crops take up the nutrients which saves the nutrients from running into water causing algal blooms. In my European country there is a legal requirement that all manure has to be spread on agricultural land because of the environmental benefits of doing so.
And the “poison”. Well that depends on where you live. There are safe pesticides and then there are generally horrifying ones. I don’t trust the US on this but I at least trust the experts on my country’s chemical regulation authority. They have banned lots of agricultural chem and have very strict requirements for new approvals. The main risk with modern agricultural chemicals are the people applying them, not the people eating the produce. Take glyphosphate for example, the most well researched agricultural chemical in existence. All the horror stories about it read as (and this is a real story I read in the newspaper): “I was spraying glyphosphate in my garden while 8 months pregnant and then I accidentally poured the entire 5 liter container on myself, then I had a miscarriage”. Lots of chemicals are like this. If I pour 5 liters of bleach all over myself I would get sick as well but that doesn’t mean bleached clothes are dangerous.
I don’t get how you can be against manure in any way. Used correctly there is close to no risk of any diseases getting to the end consumer. Usually you would apply manure before planting and by the time you harvest the crop too much time would have passed for any manure bacteria to survive.
Manure brings lots of benefits. We all know it brings nutrients but it also adds a lot of organic matter and very manure heavy plant cycles can even net store carbon in the soil. And if you wouldn’t use the manure where would you put it? We should all know those US style manure lagoons (poop lakes) are all environmental catastrophes. There is literally no better way to use manure than to spread it on crops. The crops take up the nutrients which saves the nutrients from running into water causing algal blooms. In my European country there is a legal requirement that all manure has to be spread on agricultural land because of the environmental benefits of doing so.
And the “poison”. Well that depends on where you live. There are safe pesticides and then there are generally horrifying ones. I don’t trust the US on this but I at least trust the experts on my country’s chemical regulation authority. They have banned lots of agricultural chem and have very strict requirements for new approvals. The main risk with modern agricultural chemicals are the people applying them, not the people eating the produce. Take glyphosphate for example, the most well researched agricultural chemical in existence. All the horror stories about it read as (and this is a real story I read in the newspaper): “I was spraying glyphosphate in my garden while 8 months pregnant and then I accidentally poured the entire 5 liter container on myself, then I had a miscarriage”. Lots of chemicals are like this. If I pour 5 liters of bleach all over myself I would get sick as well but that doesn’t mean bleached clothes are dangerous.