Dead animal composter can’t understand why neighbors are disturbed!
A man in Deep Gap, North Carolina is shocked. Shocked that his neighbors are disturbed by the rotting animal carcasses that he uses in his compost pile to generate the very best black gold you could ever want to make.
What disturbs the neighbors most is Carter’s use of animal carcasses in the operation. By Carter’s reckoning, the four compost piles on the site contain more than 1,000 dead cows and about 30,000 chicken carcasses. He said he’s added 400 deer in the last two years, and stray bones can be seen lying about the site.
Carter said his mission is to restore the topsoil, which he said has been depleted because animals are buried too deeply or thrown into landfills and thus don’t return organic matter to the soil. He compares the clay-heavy soil across the road with the rich, black and loose soil of his compost, saying he’s trying to reverse the depletion of the planet’s dirt.
Frankly, I don’t see the problem. I’d love to have 1,000 dead cows and a few thousand chickens next door to my property, as long as he gave me a little bit of that patented free compost he made at the end. Mmmm, mmmm, good!
