Natural over synthetic should be better but what about all the drugs humans put in their bodies?
People have been using human waste as fertilizer since agriculture began.
Mind the parasitic worms.
The Asians have been doing this for eons. Just make sure the foods are thoroughly washed in chlorine before you ingest them.
It should to be well aged. Fresh crap is what caused lettuce and other salad vegetables to give folks e coli infections. Manure of any type spread in the fall with a fall cover crop tends to eliminate those infections.
Farmers use hog crap a lot... they have these giant barns that are fully automated with over 1000 hogs. The crap runs down the holes in the concrete floor and gets collected underneath and big pumper trucks pump it out and spray it on the fields...
Yup, there is a fancy name for it..its called waste management
I remember reading about a man in FL who went to the local treatment plant and brought home several trash barrels of the stuff and scattered it on his sickly-looking yard. His lawn did green up...with about a hundred thousand tomato plants!
Lots of farmers do not use this anymore because of the salt buildup in soil. The spread of diseases rules out this for growing food crops for humans especially in root crops like carrots.
Neighbor covered his entire yard in sludge and new grass seed. It stunk mildly for a few weeks and then produced a beautiful lawn (which nobody stepped on). Don’t know if it was aging or new grass growing that took the smell away but we asked him to please not use sludge again.
Sewage sludge as fertilizer is nothing new, but If you ask any big food company, you know, the famous brands who are all about “wholesomeness” and “wellness” - they all forbid farmers who supply them to use sewer sludge.
its because a lot of other chemicals and metals, besides just human waste, go down household drains.
So it really depends then on your source of human poop
Finally, a practical application of Democrats and Vichy Republicans...
I think that depends on whether it is free manure or processed.
Good point about the drugs. We were using aged/processed waste treatment product back in the 60’s but it was on ornamental plants.
I think I’de be hesitant to use it today with the increased use of drugs by the population as a whole.
Bacteria is killed in the processing as it is treated to over 158F. But the drug residue could be a problem.
Something else to research today.
Human diseases present in feces are more easily spread this way.
Years ago, some farmers learned that ordinary packing peanuts make great soil enhancers, because they both loosen the soil and capture water, which is then available for plant roots so they require less irrigation.
They soon found a source of peanuts that were both non-toxic and would slowly biodegrade. Their last effort was a type of peanut that would also contain specific minerals needed by that type of soil, also considering having something in them that would suppress bad nematodes and fungi.
Night soil.
Hmmmm, these beans taste familiar.