- snooggums ( @snooggums@midwest.social ) English27•5 months ago
I was pretty sure dusease concerns were the primary reason for not using human waste. Was hoping the article addressed that, but it did not.
- mozz ( @mozz@mbin.grits.dev ) 17•5 months ago
Also toxic waste
For the same reason predators have higher levels of bioaccumulated toxins in their flesh, humans have much higher levels of all kinds of toxic sludge in their poop and blood and whatnot
- BlackDragon ( @BlackDragon@slrpnk.net ) English5•5 months ago
There’s a risk if you do it wrong, of course, but that doesn’t stop us from doing it right.
- Mr_Blott ( @Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ) 4•5 months ago
I think we can safely assume you’ve never met an actual farmer 😂
- BlackDragon ( @BlackDragon@slrpnk.net ) English2•5 months ago
Actual farmers have used human feces as fertilizer for ages
- tiredofsametab ( @tiredofsametab@fedia.io ) 6•5 months ago
As long as we make sure it isn’t spreading disease, it doesn’t bother me at all. Humans did it for centuries anyway from the Anglo-Saxons to the Japanese and I’m sure more.
- Jo Miran ( @JoMiran@lemmy.ml ) 4•5 months ago
If you have a backyard garden, you can compost your own feces without having to worry about the bacteria as much because it’s your own.
- stabby_cicada ( @stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net ) 10•5 months ago
Bacteria, sure. Maybe. But fecal parasites? Incompletely composting your own feces is a great way to help your intestinal parasites complete their life cycle by consuming their eggs 😆
- taanegl ( @taanegl@beehaw.org ) 4•5 months ago
…it’s manure. It’s literally shit. "Oh no, it’s not cow dung, it’s people ^dung , it’s people ^dung !
How tf do you think we’ve been managing to grow crops in the massive amounts we have? Pure wishful thinking?
Suburbia/urbanism has rotted the brains of people. We need more local farms and grow areas so people will grow tf up.
- SinAdjetivos ( @SinAdjetivos@beehaw.org ) 9•5 months ago
How tf do you think we’ve been managing to grow crops in the massive amounts we have? Pure wishful thinking?
The real answer is industrial chemical production processes and an increase in understanding of a lot of things. Traditional farming using dung is sooo last century; It’s inefficient, significantly increases the risk of various pathogens and is hard to control leading to excess runoff and plant damage.
The reason more traditional methods are being resurrected is because those processes really benifit from scaling which all but gauranties monopolization leading to price gouging etc.
- taanegl ( @taanegl@beehaw.org ) 1•5 months ago
And what “traditional methods” is that? Something from two centuries ago? How about specifications?
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) 3•5 months ago
In my experience I thought human feces only belonged in meetings at work, how wondrous it has other uses.
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) 2•5 months ago
- socsa ( @socsa@piefed.social ) English1•5 months ago
It makes great crop fertilizer as long as it is properly composted. There is a really good reason to prefer animal waste, especially herbivore waste, because it comes with a much lower risk of spreading diseases and parasites if handled less than ideally.