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.
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)
Raw waste is, of course, nasty stuff until all the dangerous bacteria have been killed off, either by heat or anaerobic digestion.
There’s a risk if you do it wrong, of course, but that doesn’t stop us from doing it right.
Just don’t forget that medications and drugs can be found in your shit. Nightsoil fertilizer would bring this out to the fields and crops.
I’m just glad they made a diarrhea truck to spread the nightsoil.
I thought human waste is full of PFAS, which then goes into the soil, which then go into the crops, which then continue to poison everyone.
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.
