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  • From: "Steve Diver" <steved@ncatark.uark.edu>
  • To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Vegan PC - again
  • Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:24:47 +0000

The PC tribe is so damn adamant about animals, yes?

Where are all the urban animals supposed to exist?

Maybe PC is over blown as a solution to world problems,
if the 75% of the population living in urban places are
excluded from practicing PC because landlords don't allow
chooks and cows to live in apartments. Of course, in a cool town
like Fayetteville or Berkeley or Asheville, we have progressive
landlords and they understand we need these animals to practice
sustainable living. Thus, weird sounds sometimes echo through the
hip neighborhoods starting in the early morning. By day--off to our
income destinations to pay for the feed--we tie the single cow to the
shower faucet and place hay in the bathtub. We have created a special
micro-barrel composting method, mixing in-situ wheatgrass sprouts with
kitchen scraps and cow poop. The compost makes a fine potting mix for
container-grown veggies and houseplants. The latest appropriate
technology craze is really an old indigenous solution, strap a poop sack
underneath the cow so it collects in one easy-to-retrieve bag ....instead of
the labor-intensive pooper scooper. Sort of like sheet mulching instead of
hoeing. There is an ethical debate here in Fayetteville though. Some PC'ers
have adopted high intensity discharge lights to raise indoor veggies, while
others askew the electrical inputs. Invariablly the naysayers are the lucky
ones with south-facing windows though. It's always easier when you're
sitting on a goldmine of sunlight in a town with beautiful trees but
concommittment shade, to be ethical on the electricity issue.

Oh, were we still visualizing the ideallic PC homestead on 0.5 to 5.0
acres?

Steve Diver
Fayetteville, Arkansas



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