Organic Gardening

Olga Schifani & Amy S. Duggan, are vegan organic farmers, educators, and activists. They started the Center for Vegan Organic Education, a subscription farm on Vashon Island, Washington in 1998 and have created the Center for Vegan Organic Education, a non-profit organization to teach people to garden using vegan organic methods and to help people reconnect to their food source.

Question:

I've heard bone meal may be harmful to use in the garden, is this true?

Answer:

There were apparently four deaths of gardeners in Great Britain attributed to the use of bone meal from cattle which may have had Mad Cow Disease. It is believed that the gardeners inhaled the bone meal dust as they were applying it to their gardens. In Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague, author Richard Rhodes describes how Bovine Spongiform Encephalopothy (BSE) may lead to Cruetzfeldt-Jacobs Disease in humans via bone meal used in agricultural production of fruits, vegetables, and grains for human consumption.

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