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Re: Cat (feces) in the garden

>If that's the case, not allowing pets to relieve themselves (feceswise)
>in the vegetable garden, then why do so many farmers (my husband
>included), till manure into the soil where the veggies are going to be
>planted?  Judy Showers, Greenhouse grower in PA z/6

At least part of what we're dealing with here is esthetics.  The manure
commonly used for fertilizer is from herbivores (cattle, horses, etc.) and
is perceived as being better smelling (at least in a relative sense - or it
it scents?) that than obtained from carnivores (cats, dogs, humans.
Herbivore manure is also available in much larger quantities and is
generally composted before use, which would tend to diminish infectious
material such as tapeworm cysts.
My father was a veterinarian and I was raised on a farm.  All animal
excrement was recycled.  A good point is made about the exposure of
pregnant women to cat feces because of the possible exposure to
toxoplasmosis.  Avoidance should not be difficult for the informed person.


Don Martinson
dmartin@cdmas.crc.fmlh.edu

"Existing order thrives upon ignorance and lies.
Objective truth and individual reason are feared above all."
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