Wow, this seems quite grim to me. It went like this for me when I saw it:
Clearly the kid is annoying (“Mooooooommmmm!!!!”), so mom has found a solution: death by compost. She’s hoping he’ll rot away like everything else in the bin, and now that she’s being questioned about it, she is considering how long that might take.
When we were on Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef), we composted everything EXCEPT meat. The lizards, about the size of German Shepherds, would dig thru the compost pile for meat, but not for anything else, the the Research Station wanted to avoid the mess they would make.
THAT is the only reason why I know meat isn’t a good compost material.
@ Andréa – In countries without giant lizards, you still don’t want to put any meat (or fat) into the compost pile, because it tends to attract rodents (rats), or (if they’re in the area) wild boar. We’ve seen both over the years, so we stick to vegetarian compost.
Comics I Don't Understand 
I thought the cartoonist was going for “common soil-enrichment things” and thus would put an Ewwwww tag on this one.
LikeLike
Wow, this seems quite grim to me. It went like this for me when I saw it:
Clearly the kid is annoying (“Mooooooommmmm!!!!”), so mom has found a solution: death by compost. She’s hoping he’ll rot away like everything else in the bin, and now that she’s being questioned about it, she is considering how long that might take.
LikeLike
ComposTumbler! It’s just unbelievable!
LikeLike
She’s the evil stepmother. No woods to lose the kid in, so the compost bin will have to do.
LikeLike
She is evil but uninformed. Meat makes terrible compost.
LikeLike
Yes. It’s as dark as you think.
But Mike is also correct… you need to hot-compost to compost meat…
LikeLike
Except the kid is already rotten…
LikeLike
When we were on Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef), we composted everything EXCEPT meat. The lizards, about the size of German Shepherds, would dig thru the compost pile for meat, but not for anything else, the the Research Station wanted to avoid the mess they would make.
THAT is the only reason why I know meat isn’t a good compost material.
LikeLike
@ Andréa – In countries without giant lizards, you still don’t want to put any meat (or fat) into the compost pile, because it tends to attract rodents (rats), or (if they’re in the area) wild boar. We’ve seen both over the years, so we stick to vegetarian compost.
LikeLike
Yes, I s’pose every country has SOME wildlife that wants the meat.
LikeLike
Of course “death by compost” is impossible: You have to already be dead BEFORE you begin composting.
LikeLike