Why Scoop the Poop?
Channel: The Raging Feminist
Date: 2023-05-06

00:00 Why do we pick up our dog's poop, put it in a plastic bag and then put it in the garbage when the poop/ excrement/ crap/ feces, as it is,  is baseline plant food and fertiliser?

01:06 Something's off here.
02:00 Grass-eater or herbivore poop generally does have a more alkaline pH value which is better for most soil areas. Carnivores will have lower pH values (acidic) due to their meat-based diet.

03:05 However, we are not scooping up lion or wolf poop from the wild and storing it in little plastic bags to throw out too.
Their poop is still okay for the environment, but our dog's poop isn't.

05:00 Even though our animals are fully vaccinated, have full immunisations, and multiple treatments, their poop is still assumed to have active bacteria and viruses in it that should the poop be left on the ground,  and would affect and contaminate ground water systems.

05:15 Does this then mean that the vaccinations, immunisations and treatments were ineffectual and essentially useless? What was the point?

It implies that our dogs are extremely dirty creatures and it doesn't matter how much we treat them preventatively, they are walking germ-farms.

06:20 And, if this is true, how long do viruses and bacteria last outside the body of the dog anyway? Many usually don't last once exposed to the elements outside the body.

07:00 Hence dog owners are encouraged to not let their dogs eat other dog's fresh poop. However, if most people's dogs are vaccinated and immunised, why is this still a concern?

Why doesn't this affect wild dogs and wolves in the wild?
Wild dogs and wolves who haven't been medically treated by humans for anything.
Are they worse with their poop in the soil in the wild?

If a wild dog or wolf never had any vaccines, is it less diseased or more diseased than our pet dogs?

Are the treatments then relevant or irrelevant?

11:15 Wouldn't any kind of poop be welcome fertiliser on barren/ sterile land with no nutrients at all in it?

Typically dog poop is very nutrient-rich with nitrogen and phosphorous.
Aren't we supposed to be keeping carbon in the soil, and improving nitrogen and phosphorous retention (being kept) in the soil?

13:50 Such focus on things that seem small and irrelevant.

15:00 One main environmental reason should be enough however aesthetic (image) reasons are often given when people don't understand the main reason.

17:25 "Environmental concern"

However, there is no concern for developer companies buying up forest land to do whatever they like with it with no baseline government policies in place to limit or stop them.

19:00 Garbage separation doesn't mean much in some countries. It can all be chucked in the same truck, compacted, and taken to the landfill or garbage dump. Then the rain falls on it all and all that residue is washed into the local ground water systems.
"Environmental concern".

Contradictory.

22:15 Moisture retention in the earth is very important in northern China, this region being very dry.

In the wild, in autumn/ fall, the fallen leaves cover the earth and create a kind of blanket that traps in (or insulates) the heat and the moisture in the soil to keep it viable and help life in the soil survive the winter and not dry out.

In human-inhabited areas, all these fallen leaves are constantly raked up and taken away leaving the earth dry and cold with no moisture or heat retention. Whatever lives in the earth doesn't stand much chance of survival.

24:00 Composting is not actively encouraged in the cities even though there's no shortage of kitchen scraps. There's a lot of waste of kitchen scraps being thrown into the landfills with everything else.

26:20 Objectively, it looks like we're meant to be starving the earth, and leaving it cold and dry during winter, and make it difficult to encourage plant growth.

27:20 In most first world countries, you don't see fruit-bearing trees in the cities.

28:30 Male trees and plants are planted within cities specifically so that there is no fruit. Aesthetic reasons as in 'fruit will fall on the ground and make a mess' are given. It seems that free fruit for the public is discouraged or unintended.

Fertile soil and free available fruit within cities is not a goal.

Watch the tendencies and practices, and the outcomes.

31:10 Part of a bigger picture.
Humans get guilt-tripped all the time about:
- carbon in the earth
- driving cars
- flying in planes
- eating meat
We're pressured to find alternative sources of protein.

Can canines and felines (dogs and cats) eat anything other than meat?
A huge part of the meat industry is devoted to producing pet food.

Ultimately, we'll be discouraged from having meat-eating pets. If the animal needing to eat meat is bad, and also what's coming out of it is also bad (the poop), then there's no point in keeping the animal at all.

35:00 Following the trends towards a natural conclusion, there's a slow creep towards humans not owning any domestic animals.
"Leave No Trace"