That article about not using pet waste in the compost is a bunch of hooey. If you use it without composting then those hazards exist, but after a long time in the compost and it has all broken down to look just like soil there isn't the problem that one would encounter with fresh manure.

I listened to a fairly extensive interview with a couple of the authors of that study, I didn't get my information from a sound byte or crawl across a television screen. I don't think they traveled out of their comfort zone of ag school research into the solid research that is being done in the Organic Farming (and Gardening) community. And they didn't seem to take into account the soil and environmental impacts of those herbicides and fertilizers that they found to have nominal effect on people who might eat them.

SRS