organic worm castings

Should a Vegan use Earthworm Castings?

Earthworm Castings are commercially sold as an organic fertilizer. They are the excretions left behind by worms after they finish digesting the organic matter. They do this naturally in your garden and lawn, but they are being commercially exploited the way honey bees are. What do you all think?
This is the newest debate between me and my vegan friend. I’m a vegetarian myself and have a earthworm compost bed.

OK, I am a vegan and I keep worms as a way to keep down the amount of waste our family contributes to the landfill. As an added bonus, my worms make wonderful castings for my garden and my house plants. I don’t know about the big commercial worm farms, but I can tell you that I carefully pick out every worm AND the worm cocoons that contain baby worms not yet hatched when I harvest the castings and return them to their happy homes in my worm bins.

It would seem to me that other worm “farmers” would try to save the worms unharmed if not for the worm’s sake, but to keep expenses down by preserving the worms they have and future generations of worms. I imagine that in large commercial worm farms there is a certain amount of “collateral damage” done, but I don’t know for fact as I have never seen any first hand.

I have happy worms! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

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