Posted on
Might 15, 2025 by
The VRG Weblog Editor
photograph from Light World
by Jeanne Yacoubou, MS
Greens are sometimes grown utilizing slaughterhouse byproducts. Fertilizers and soil amendments made primarily of blood, bone, feather, or fishmeal, to not point out manure, are frequent components.
Sadly, even licensed natural greens have seemingly been grown in fields actually brimming with excrement from livestock that was fed with pesticide-treated grains. The animals seemingly have been raised on artificial hormones or prophylactic antibiotics to keep at bay illness from shut confinement. As current headlines concerning the H5N1 avian flu virus infecting cows and people can attest, there aren’t any methods to keep at bay all illnesses in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
So, what’s a involved shopper to do? Some people develop their very own produce utilizing vegan fertilizers. There are many methods to concoct your individual mix from solely plant-based sources so you may relaxation assured that what you’re consuming is vegan.
Restricted area just isn’t a barrier to entry. Vegan gardening works in containers on balconies and stoops, in raised beds on rooftops, in yard gardens, or in open group plots. Anybody can develop their very own with a little bit of persistence.
However there may be one other answer: hunt down farms working towards veganic agriculture. See: https://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2025issue1/2025_issue1_veganic_agriculture.php
To subscribe to Vegan Journal within the USA, see: https://www.vrg.org/member/2013sv.php
