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The 15th October 2009 is Blog Action Day , powered by Change.org. In their words: ‘Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices.’ I have taken part in Blog Action Day for a couple of years now along with my Sister and Mum and it really is an amazing event. This year’s topic is climate change. I have begun to notice over the past few years while attending seminars and courses that we can be very good at getting together, uniting to a cause and planning action however a period of time elapses, nothing happens and then before you know it we are all sitting there again discussing the same issues and noticing that we didn’t actually take any action . This day to me is a day of communicating the wish for chang...

Following on from my last post I heard back from DEFRA. There was no mention of using animal carcasses in slurry however I gather it is not permitted, they did however reiterate the information I had already found out regarding use of fertilisers and manure adjacent to water courses and such. I am aware though that farmers are also able to purchase human waste from sewer farms to spread on their fields, hence the change in smell for the worse in recent years! Anyway I am continuing to investigate so I can get a comprehensive list of what is legal and what is not. I know the human waste is legal although I don't think it should be! Not wishing to be judgemental if there is anyone visiting here that is involved in agriculture that can give me any additional information I would be very grateful.