I thought I would start a thread on amendments you don't like and why you don't like them. Since we all probably have one or two things we just don't want to use. Tell us what you hate and why you hate it, no matter how petty or strange the reason.

I hate blood meal, bone meal, fish emulsion, feather meal or anything else that comes from the animal sluaghter industry. I won't use them or products that contain them. I just don't feel right supporting that since I don't agree with meat eating. Strangely, I like seabird guano which is just bird-made fish emulsion. Thats me. Anyone else?

need I say it?

Peat.

I don't mess with the animal stuff much anymore either excepting composted manures, and even then only as an amendment.

don't forget that fish emulsion made out of fish stuff. ok.
Which, in this day and age, contains more heavy metals than the same amount of gerber baby food! translate- stay away!
People be warned that not all ORGANISMS/JOINTS are created evenly! and also their is no such thing as atlantic salmon.

I don't like blood meal because none of the descriptions I've read of the process by which it is made ever mention sterilization. Blood transmits all kinds of diseases. Besides that, I've read horror stories of plant burn/death from a relatively small dose.

I don't like fish emulsions because of high Hg levels.

I like meat and my dad taught me that any animal slaughtered should be used to its fullest else the slaughter is completely unjustified, so bring on the meals....I can't agree with refeeding animals the meal of their brethren...especially when it's an herbivore that animal meal is being fed to. That's just unnatural, so I only buy meats from "organic" ranchers. Either grain, pasture or free range fed livestock for me

as an organic farmer knows you must kill the small furry skweeky(sp.?)things now an then. I always commit them to the earth - as in the process de natural.
sorry to break it down , like I T, but the nitrogen plants use come from dead things, and the such. Just be certain about what you put in your mouth and what comes out. Roadkill, I hear, is to die for. plants like nettles and horsetail can provide excellent nutrients not otherwise available. hears a tip use your water from cold water hash extraction

blood meel brings on worms that in turn eat the roots of your plants. Bone meel is good / or if you like / I keep egg shell that i crush by hand to flatten them then microwave it. When I have a lot o' the suff - I dump it in a liquidizer to powderised it - this i use with dry/old cowdung, some ckicken shit, washed river sand mixed with garden soil --- i also get some iron shavings form the local engineering shop and add it to my mixture, the stuff oxodizes and is good for the plants. I'm an outside grower. natural is best for me - And yes - take a fresh road kill and burry it 1 ft down before u plant your seedlings. Recycle is how the earth has always survived -- all my garden refuse gets put back in the garden after it has decomposed.

After thought -- patatto peels also bring on worms -- 3 leaf clover gives off nitrogen in the soil and is ok to have growing along side or around the plant base

Yes Virginia , there are Atlantic Salmon ....hehehe just lettin ya know .... I'll go away now ...

I guess ...I'm lucky ....I use only local rain water ...and local river water ... we must be doin something right ...of course we do have a fairly healthy Eco-system here, including Micro-systems (small end of the food chain) ...which helps ...we have an abundant Insect ,Bird&Bat, and Fish habitat...so that helps too ...Good luck using anything non-organic,Why,because there is NO better source of Nitrogen ,than RAIN water ... esspecially if you have lots and lots of Lightning ...cause that is the GREATEST producer of Nitrogen ..... Good Luck All ..... PEACE OUT