N.Koreans 'Forced to Produce Fertilizer'

I was just trying to convince myself it was not an April Fool. K?

41 posted on 04/01/2013 4:07:38 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)

I was just trying to convince myself it was not an April Fool. K?

42 posted on 04/01/2013 4:13:29 PM PDT by BfloGuy (The economy is not a pie, but a bakery.)

..............but the excrement is harder to come by than one might expect. The source said, "There are cases of theft of squat toilets because of this, and people are putting locks on their lavatories to prevent this."

OooEee, if human excrement is that valuable, the Walmart shoppers are walking around with a fortune in them...............

43 posted on 04/01/2013 4:33:20 PM PDT by varon (USA Nationalist)

"I believe people in countries that use raw manure as fertilizer avoid that hazard by not ingesting uncooked vegetables."

Thank you. True about countries where "night soil" is often poured in its raw state on vegetables. Happened in some parts of our western countries long ago, too. Cooking does help against hepatitis A and other problems. Even after uses of processed fertilizers, at least some cooking is a good idea (bugs even in cleaner soils). To this day, manure from cattle is simply spread over hay fields with spreaders or sets of tires dragged with chains behind tractors (some parts of the drier western US), but that's hay for cattle.

Many, many moons ago, US military personnel were warned in a film against eating raw vegetables in foreign restaurants and advised to eat only cooked foods in those places. The film was also shown later in high school Civil Defense and physical education classes near some US military bases. [Yeah, I'm fossilizing.]

Properly done, human waste is great fertilizer, though precautions should be taken (binning/burying, proper processing/wait times before uses, personal sanitation, avoiding other hazards). Granted, processing human manure is not as pleasant or easy for growing vegetables as buying and using pre-processed, bagged or bulk fertilizer (my preferred garden fertilizing method).

44 posted on 04/01/2013 4:57:15 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)

Milorganite is manufactured by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.

I put on my lawn twice a year

45 posted on 04/01/2013 5:16:57 PM PDT by Popman (Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)

North Korea: Plenty of nukes but no poop.

46 posted on 04/01/2013 6:10:01 PM PDT by Kolath

Good fertilizer for lawns.

47 posted on 04/01/2013 6:35:33 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)

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Wow. Can you imagine having to lock up your excrement so nobody will steal it?

48 posted on 04/01/2013 7:14:10 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)

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