4mo ago

Blood Meal

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If I use this to fertilize my veggies, are they still vegan?
- Two factors to consider id say. Blood isn't the only organic source of nitrogen so it's not as if its necessary, thus I'd wager many vegans would consider it unnecessary animal suffering, at least in theory. However the caveat, and second factor, would be blood is byproduct, no ones killing the animals in order to obtain blood meal so many people including vegans may think it more ethical to not let it go to waste since weather or not there's a demand for blood meal, there will still be animal blood that needs to be disposed of.
  Strictly dietarialy, yes they would still be vegan. All soil is full of countless formless decomposed animals and plants, it's an inescapable reality of how the soil came to be. It can only get more ethically involved when you choose to add it yourself imo.
  
  That second point would require intimate knowledge about which animal parts would be disposed of if they didn't find a buyer.
  In reality, everything is used. If there wasn't a market for part of an animal, a use was found and a market created (which is part of the reason why industrially produced white sugar, beer, wine, apple juice, potato chips and bread usually aren't vegan).
  Anyway, vegans usually don't care about whether an animal product could be leftover. Their philosophy boils down to "Just fucking leave animals in peace."
  
  Even honey isn't okay with some (I have no idea the %, could be most or just a small number) of vegans. So regardless of how the blood was obtained, there is at least some who would not consider it vegan.
  
  Whether or not. Not weather.
- There are vegan blood meal alternatives out there to resolve this exact conundrum.
  But the reality is, unless your plants are being grown hydroponically in a sealed warehouse or similar, chances are real good that they are feeding on decaying animals (either directly or indirectly) whether you like it or not. They're mostly insects and annelids and such, but still animals.
  I think the issue for vegans is more about whether animal slaughter was involved in making their fertilizer. Dead pillbugs in the soil is just nature doing its cycle of life thing.
  
  The issue for vegans is whether animal slaughter was involved and whether they supported it with their purchase.
  
  Humans are just as much part of nature as everything else
  
  Life feeds on life feeds on life, plants don't care how you died just how your nutrients are able to be absorbed.
  
  Doesn't have to be hydroponics, using coco coir instead of soil will also fix that issue

Instant coffee for Vampires
- As a vampire I finally found a use for my expresso machine
  
  I love the idea of a vampire having kitchen appliances for which they have no use just like regular people.
  
  Espresso with an S!
  It's counterintuitive since making an espresso shot with a warmed up machine is quite fast. 😜
- The best part of waaaking up...

It makes sense to clarify. There are many dishes made with blood, black pudding and blood sausage comes to mind.
- Also it's good to let people know because dogs absolutely love that shit and you have to be careful to keep it out of areas dogs can get at it.
  I worked in a green house and one customer's dog dug up an entire tree she planted to get at the blood meal she put in the bottom of the hole. Dog was okay, but needed to stay at the vets a few days to monitor the vomiting and their iron levels.

what fucked up tumblr subculture has my shitpost reached
I've never been on tumblr and just assumed the whole site was like that.

I mean, it says it's a meal right on the front. /s

Stuff is expensive. It's the best thing I've found for keeping deer from eating my plants, but then I got a dog that just went nuts for the stuff and would just eat it like mad when he went outside. So now the dear just eat my plants again.
- Our dachshund picks up and eats all kind of shit. She's a destroyer of SHOES and CPAP masks, of course, but she also eats rocks, plastic, or whatever else she finds.
  The other day I walk in, and she has 2 milkbones (we don't buy them and I have no idea where they came from). She just moved them around for a few days and never ate them. But a stick is fine dining.
  
  Dogs are weird.
  
  The way dogs handle new food is interesting. They have very short digestive tracts so the idea for them is to eat everything once, and if it makes them sick it will make them sick very quickly. They then know not to eat something.
  Thats a possible reason for the aversion. They can also associate foods with traumatic events sort of like humans do.
- This is what I came here to say. The clarification on the post is not about humans eating plant food, it's about idiot fucking pets eating plant food. They eat grass, why wouldn't they chow down on something that smells like blood.

I feel like the tumblr user asking why it's necessary to tell people not to eat blood meal must have forgotten they're on tumblr. The whole site is just smut curated by the generation that turned eating tide pods into a meme.
- Uhm, hello, it says blood MEAL, so of course it's made to be eaten.
  
  In that case you're gonna love bone meal.
- And TBF if it were actually just dried blood with no additives then it wouldn't be so bad.
  Still not recommended, but not as bad.

Can I use the iron in this to forge a sword??
- Sure, but you'd need a lot.
  https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-gaming/blood-iron-sword-myth-explored/#:~:text=At%204%20grams%20per%20person,iron%20longsword%20out%20of%20blood.
  
  Ahh, that says you might need ~2.3 kg of iron sand after removing the non-iron from the material. Blood meal appears to be .2% iron by weight. Very napkin quality math says you'd need ~1150 bags to get enough iron

My first thought was if it could be rehydrated and used as a more easily acquired prop blood, as opposed to pig's blood.

In many cultures blood, sometimes dried is used in cooking.
For example blood sausage and blood pancakes are eaten in finland
- Sweden, Ireland, France, Spain and Italy also use them for sausage-like products (these I know of, I'm sure there's more)

forbidden nesquik
- Don't look at bone meal (in the same section of the store)

Let me introduce you to blood sausages...
- Ya, I assumed this was like instant mash for blood pudding. Probably would have second guessed it if I saw it in the gardening aisle, though.

Etsy Users Are Eating Dirt

Is this an US thing? I'm fairly certain I've never seen that in Germany
- No, you can find this in garden shops in Europe.

Iron helps us play!

Look, nobody is saying you should eat the whole bag, but a teaspoon every so often as a treat maybe?
- Could it serve as an iron supplement?

Tumblr goths, ffs.

Fuckin lame ass cosplay suburban vampire bullshit. Most likely teenage but also really gross lame adults. OR....Carrie enthusiasts.

Why would you find eating blood disgusting? You know where meat comes from, right? And why it's red?
- Meat is red because of myoglobin, a protein found in mammalian muscle tissue that turns red when exposed to oxygen.
  Myoglobin is different from hemoglobin though, which is the stuff in blood. Most of the time, your meat only has a tiny amount of hemoglobin in it by the time it gets to your table.
  
  Its still safe to say that someone who eats meat is also eating blood, right?
  
  Myoglobin is red because of the iron atoms that compose it. So is hemoglobin. But thanks for mansplaining.

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