Posted by YaYa [YaYa] on April 08, 1999 at 15:27:37 {vxsc0.TBNkrTqARanQQcwpYq2W9XoY}:
In Reply to: Will U B Part of 'New Earth'? posted by You Know on April 08, 1999 at 07:48:40:
You Know,
You don't do much composting, do you? A ten foot high pile of dung is indeed a beautiful thing to a gardener, but only if it is the dung of herbivores. Even then it should be mixed with what horticulturalists call 'green manure' in the form of plant prunings, grass clippings, straw, wood chips, etc., and allowed to compost before use. Allow the microbes to take over, turn it over once in a while, don't let it get too dense and in a year or so...Black Gold!
You don't want the excrement of carnivores in your compost. The last thing you want in your compost is meat from any source. Meat merely putrifies and becomes an unmanagable goo. The remaining skeletal material takes ages to break down.
To sum up, a compost pile 6 billion humans high is only good for flies.
YaYa