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WHAT'S NEXT – COMPOSTING DEAD BABIES?

Exclusive: Patrice Lewis notes Seattle forbids tossing out orange peel, but not the unborn

Out here on our farm, we have many methods of waste disposal.

Human waste, of course, is flushed into the septic system. Barn waste gets heaped onto a giant compost pile, where it eventually breaks down and is worked into our half-acre garden or shared with neighbors. Burnable waste gets tossed in our wood stove (during colder months). Recyclables get recycled, which is a chore since the nearest recycling center is an hour’s drive away. Food waste is divvied into scraps for the chickens or dogs, or composted along with garden waste (I’m also looking into worm composting). And of course sometimes there’s plain ol’ garbage, a lot less than the American norm since we don’t buy a lot of prepackaged stuff.

And once, a couple of years ago, we had a calf born dead – the first we’ve ever lost. Because we didn’t want it to attract predators, we buried it.

But if there’s one thing we don’t have, it’s nosy busybodies sniffing around our property, making sure we comply with someone else’s rigid requirements of how we should manage our waste stream.

The same cannot be said for certain progressive municipalities such as Seattle, where sniffing through strangers’ garbage is apparently an accepted part of life. Not only that, but people can be shamed in front of their neighbors by the use of bright red tags on garbage cans announcing to the world that the evil people within that house (gasp) threw away a rotting banana.

You see, it’s now against the law to throw away food in Seattle and certain other cities. Food waste cannot be put into regular garbage cans – it must be composted. And to make sure your waste doesn’t contain any forbidden coffee grounds or rotting bananas, the city employs garbage police.

These waste watchers are called “recologists” and are hired by urban bureaucrats to make sure you don’t commit the unspeakable sin of tossing that rotting banana into the trash. “You can see all the oranges and coffee grounds,” said one recologist in Seattle as he lifted the lid of a garbage can. “All that makes great compost. You can put that in your compost bin and buy it back next year in a bag and put it in your garden.”

Look, I don’t have any objection to composting, recycling and sensible waste management. But doesn’t it creep you out when strangers paw through your garbage and fine you (and shame you) when your waste habits don’t meet their rigid standards?

It seems to me that progressives spend their entire lives fighting against freedom. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were conceived with the notion of minimal governmental intrusion into our personal lives, but liberals hate personal responsibility and individual liberty. Instead they prefer draconian laws and rigid regulations to bring everyone into compliance with their vision of urban Utopia – except for one thing: their sex lives. In that area, not only do they want NO responsibility and NO restrictions, but they also want the government (meaning, you and me) to pay for every facet, fallout and stupid decision that results from that lack of responsibility and restraint.

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Liberals are expected to have the self-control to compost their banana peels, but not to keep their knees together or their wick zipped until marriage. Apparently, it’s easier (and more moral) to force someone to compost their coffee grounds than to force someone to take responsibility for their sexual behavior. In progressive cities, you can’t toss away your apple core or you’ll get a red tag … but you can walk into an abortion center and toss away a living baby without a second thought.

This is the kind of nanny state progressives long for, a place where uncomposted coffee grounds or orange peels are horrifying, but abortions are easy, encouraged, or even celebrated.

Progressives like to claim a woman has the “right” to rip a living fetus from her body – but not to toss a rotting banana in the trash. Is it just me, or does anyone else think this is twisted logic? And what do they do with thousands of dead babies? Do they compost them? I mean, wouldn’t that be the ecologically friendly thing to do?

The logic of liberals escapes me. It seems it’s the norm to demonize the disposal of food waste while being utterly uncaring to the fate of unborn children. People can be shamed in front of their neighbors for throwing away coffee grounds, but praised by all society for the “courage” to abort a baby so it wouldn’t interfere with their lifestyle. People can be humiliated for their lack of self-control when it comes to waste, but praised and encouraged for their lack of control when it comes to hooking up or “expressing their sexuality.”

It strikes me that if places like Seattle stopped being so draconian about waste disposal and instead stopped funding irresponsible and poor sexual choices, there might be an increase in peoples’ personal restraint and self-control. After all, one of the reasons people are irresponsible with their sex lives in the first place is because the government pays them to procreate out of wedlock. Worse, it encourages people to abort unwanted babies into the waste stream, with less regard than rotting bananas and coffee grounds.

Seattle and other progressive cities do their best to retire food waste with dignity. But what happens to wasted fetuses? Are they treated to a dignified burial, or are they tossed away like a dead calf or “composted” in incinerators?

What a sad, twisted, mixed-up world where banana peels are treated with more care than dead baby cows, and certainly better than dead baby people. In such a world, good is evil and evil is good.

I’m certain the progressives reading this column will miss my point entirely. They’ll twist my words to infer how conservatives are heartless cretins out to destroy women’s “rights” by suggesting they bear any fruit they willingly conceive.

Read it again. If you don’t want a child, keep your legs crossed or your wick zipped. Abstinence works 100 percent of the time. By taking personal responsibility for your procreation, imagine how well you can minimize your waste stream.

That way, you’ll have lots more time to compost your kitchen scraps without bringing death into the equation.

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