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Veganic (vegan-organic) is a form of gardening that avoids the use of toxic sprays and chemicals as well as fertilizers that include animal remains and animal manure. While organic gardening avoids synthetic chemicals, numerous organic fertilizers contain blood, bone, offal, hooves, horns, fish remains, and feathers. Veganic farming avoids these products because many of them derive from slaughterhouses and industrial farming and are processed into blood meal, bone meal, and fish emulsions. Cultivating without digging to not disturb the soil organisms in the top inches of the soil is an important feature of veganic farming. Farmers, instead, use mulching techniques.
Most veganic farmers are motivated by vegan principles and lifestyle practices and refrain from using products derived from animals and from raising animals as livestock.
Some of the non-animal products and techniques used in veganic gardening including hay...
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Parker, A.D. (2018). Veganic Farming. In: Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_592-1
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