A tale of two poos - attitudes towards the agricultural use of human excretion-based fertiliser differ between Japan and England as new research shows.
  • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
    441·
    3 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@mbin.grits.dev
      23·
      3 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

    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
      151·
      3 months ago

      The only thing I’ve ever heard about it is that you’d have to wash all produce you bought and my exact response has always been “Are you people not washing your produce after purchase!?”

      Edit: Also a lot of y’all seem to think we’d be throwing raw untreated human waste directly into the fields. We don’t even do that with animal fertilizer. It’s treated waste that removes a lot of the toxins that would cause us to get sick (again only if you’re not washing your produce which you should always do regardless)

      • socsa@piefed.social
        2·
        3 months ago

        Right, but the entire reason to prefer herbivore waste is because it is much less likely to spread disease when handled improperly.

    • BlackDragon@slrpnk.netEnglish
      91·
      3 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
        4·
        3 months ago

        I think we can safely assume you’ve never met an actual farmer 😂