Posted on 12/28/2010 10:56:24 AM PST by Sub-Driver
The Asian continent historically has used human excrement for fertilizer. Much of the food you eat comes from Asia, including China, and was most likely fertilized that way.
Remember the term “honey bucket?” That was a yoke with a bucket of human excrement on each end, carried over the coolie's neck being taken out to the fields.
You youngsters on FR just don't know about the finer things in life!
No it was called a Police Action, and you can thank Harry @ss Truman for the defeat and loss of lives. He also gets credit for the survival of Mao.
How could a family fertilize even a small garden with only their own poop?
The county will apply sewage sludge to pasture land for hauling cost only. It will really green up a field, but it is horrid for the first week or two.
Agreed. One would hope that the U.S, Russia, and China can sit down and say-”Listen. We all understand poking each other in the eye with a stick but what’s going on in North Korea just isn’t right. Let’s just agree to let South Korea slowly integrate the North back into the country. C’mon. The three of us are powerful and rich enough”.
At first glace, I read “fashionable trousers” as “fissionable trousers.” I hope there is an embargo against shipping nuclear pants to the Worker’s paradise.
yes they collect it with Honey Wagons drawn by an OX. It is collected in Honey pots in the village. An old Korean Warrior said he fell into one while fleeing from the MP’s who were raiding the Ladies of the evening. He escaped smelly but safe. The Army uses Hydroponic farms. Or they say they do.
“Yonhap news agency reported that shops began selling human excrement to deal with acute shortages of fertilizer in North Korea.”
I forgot that in the 1960s in South Korea “honey buckets” - human waste collected from local houses and establishments, during the night - were still a source of fertilizer for farms and gardens in poor villages.
I had forgotten that, and when I read the quote above I first thought that maybe poor North Koreans were buying the “human excrement” for fuel.
The biggest problem, even then in the 1960s in South Korea, was not directly from the use of human excrement for fertilizer, but because of HOW it was used it could easily become a contaminate of the local drinking-water supply; because most local drinking water drew directly from the local wells and the local water table and not filtered and monitored water systems.
In other words, in most conditions that human excrement is used for fertilizer, the “sewer system” is released directly into drinking water supply from the run off from the farms.
now that’s funny right there
see my post on this thread, number 51
That picture has always intrigued me. Is it real? Frankly it doesn’t make China look so hot, either, compared with South Korea, which is lit up like a Christmas tree.
The water must have been/still is massively contaminated with fecal coliform bacteria. Y U C K ! ! !
Which of these doesn't belong?
Thanks, but I'll stick with "Korean War" - euphemisms and distinctions without difference just don't appeal to me. I'm aware there was no formal declaration of war.
I don't give Truman a pass over the outcome, but he didn't send 200,000 chinese troops into Korea, China did; so I still consider China to be ultimately responsible for the survival of the Norks, then and now.
I have no reason to doubt it. The site had various pictures of the world at night from satellites.
No, China doesn’t look so hot because they really don’t care about the outlying areas having electricity, and even in the cities they have frequent outages. People queue up their chores that require electricity, wait for it to come on, and rush to get them done while it’s on.
One side note. In advanced countries like America, the lit areas are a proxy for population. Notice that west of the Mississippi, the population is MUCH less dense. And to a survivalist, when the SHTF, you don’t want to be in high population density areas of the country.
Right did you know it was fought as a UN Police Action? A declaration of War changes a lot of rules, Harry bought into this cr@p.
I don't give Truman a pass over the outcome, but he didn't send 200,000 chinese troops into Korea, China did;
Dougla MacCarthur, could have fixed it, but Harry was weak kneed. In fact Mac pulled of the impossible in spite of Harry's sad decision.
I saw a 13 part series of interviews with Harry after he moved back home, it was on a local station. He clearly feared Russia and possibly a Chinese Nuclear response, which they could not deliver. So I blame Harry for all of it including the rise of power by Stalin and Mao. At least to the point that he gave in to the demands of the Commie Roosevelt staffers that infected his administration.
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