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All organic food grows in shit. It's called manure. You probably bought some.

• teekert 11y ago
  Carnivore feces are not considered to be advantageous for gardening and in the case of cat dumpings you also have the risk of toxoplasmosis to consider. Any manure you use for fertilizer should be well composted, as using fresh poop of any kind will tend to kill off your plants due to the high ammonia content and the heat of decomposition. Also, fresh herbivore poop tends to have undigested seeds in it which can lead to strange weeds in your flower beds. Toxoplasmosis is dangerous to pregnant women, it is why they shouldn't do gardening for 9 months.
  • seunosewa 11y ago
    Good points, but none of this means that fruits grown in soil contaminated with cat poop must be destroyed. You just need to wash them.
    • mordechai9000 11y ago
      I have two large dogs. When I was investigating the possibility of composting their waste, I ran across several sources that said even composted dog waste should only be used for ornamentals, not food plants. This may be out of an abundance of caution, but the idea is that plants drawing up nutrients and water from the soil can become contaminated with viable bacteria as well.
      • seunosewa 11y ago
        There is no evidence of the existence of cat/human diseases that can infect plants or plant diseases that can infect cats/humans. Plants and animals are enormously different biologically. A pathogen that has evolved to infect one is very unlikely to to be capable of infecting the other. It's just as likely as the existence of a nobel prize winning physicist who is also the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.