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Only little backyard operations use animal manure. No large food chain will carry greens grown in animal manure.
by markdown 4y ago
Only little backyard operations use animal manure. No large food chain will carry greens grown in animal manure.
- tompccs 4y agoHave you heard of a small movement called organic farming? https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningagclips.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F09%2Fcertified-organics-20170920-02.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
- wyre 4y agoMaybe so, but how does that explain how E. coli outbreaks on lettuce? From what I understand the waste from animal farms run off into waterways that feed the vegetable farms.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoField workers who don't get bathroom breaks.
- scythe 4y agoRabbits? It's not exactly easy ensure there are no animals across thousands of square miles of farmland.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoLooking into this, it's hard to say since there are contamination issues at every point between preharvest and the moment you put it into your mouth: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6899298/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6899298/ It doesn't seem to rank the causes it lists, but googling it suggests widespread contamination caused by fecal matter runoff from animal ag finding its way into irrigation water.
- steve_adams_86 4y agoHere in Canada we have pretty heavy application of manure, primarily in spring and fall. It's part of how we replenish soils at small and large scales. I suspect we rarely grow greens immediately after applications, but to say only backyard operations use animal manure isn't true. Evidently this is a common and well-researched practice in the USA as well: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286297896_Animal_Manure_Production_and_Utilization_in_the_US https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286297896_Animal_Ma...