Recycled food.

The only reason I know for not composting cooked food at home is that it attracts rats! So the councils composting food are doing us a favour. Once it's all composted properly, you wouldn't know what was in there. It will all become good stuff to use on the garden or fields. I can't see why it should change the diet of insects or birds.

Fair question Paul, does cooking the food make it less organic or toxic? Composting generates heat, a cooking if you will of your organic material, slower than your cooker for sure but necessary to break it down...I wonder about say a forest fire that leaves the ground "cooked", left to its own, new growth springs out and the wildlife still thrives in the new area? I think cooked food is ok, but avoid meat scraps as it does attract rodents more than veggies. If your compost pile is cribbed it should deter the rodents, have seen chicken wire used to keep out unwelcome guests :)