N. Korea: KIM JONG UN MAY HAVE CAUSED A PARASITIC WORM EPIDEMIC IN NORTH KOREA BY MAKING FARMERS...

Newsweek ^ | 11/17/17 | CALLUM PATON

[rebelskid]

http://humanurehandbook.com/ I don’t think this has been translated into nork just yet...

[vette6387]

“I have a years supply of homegrown garlic, so I don’t have to depend on the crap from China.”

We live less than 50 miles from Gilroy, CA, the Garlic Capital of the United States. And yet we see Chinese garlic in our stores. Go figure! The other one that really got to me is when I found out that “grated Parmesan cheese” ( Like Kraft and other domestic producers) contains wood by-products as “fillers. So now we buy a chunk of the cheese and grate it ourselves. It's like George Carlin said years ago, "There are no lemons in lemonade today because they are hard at work in the furniture polish!"

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Why would we kill the people?

[buwaya]

This is not new.

Traditional in China.

[TigerLikesRooster]

I don't think so. N. Koreans are going a lot further than countries you mentioned. The problem is compounded by lack of chemical fertilizers and shortage of cooking fuel. The collapsed public health system cannot deal with parasites either.

Kim Jong-un's policy is a disastrous way to deal with fertilizer shortage. You don't have to be an expert to see that the number of parasite carriers will go up.

[TigerLikesRooster]

It is not the use of human feces, but the extent of it coupled with shortage of cooking fuel and collapsed public health system. What can be contained is probably out of control.

[ConorMacNessa]

I lived in Taiwan in the early 60's when my dad was stationed there. It was referred to as "night soil" in those days.

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[metmom]

From Kraft’s label ingredients:

Ingredients: Ingredients: Parmesan Cheese (Pasteurized Part-Skim Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes), Cellulose Powder to Prevent Caking, Potassium Sorbate to Protect Flavor.

Cellulose Powder = Wood by products.

[WMarshal]

Kim Jong Un is a rat bastard but using “night soil” or shit to fertilize crops is an age-old practice in Asia. I read a book by the first ambassador to Japan after World War II who was the son of missionaries in prewar Japan. While he was growing up in Japan he told how he and his brother had to be dewormed monthly and that the Japanese population suffered from many food-borne parasites. One story that stuck out for me was about his brother freaking out when the worms, trying to do escape the de-worming medication started crawling up his throat and into his mouth.

[Bruce Buckley]

When I was a kid my father was in the navy and we were based on a joint US Naval Air Station/French Foreign Legion base at Port Lyautey/Kenitra, Morocco.

We had a base commissary, but fresh produce was purchased at the marche’ off base.

Moroccans also used night soil, so all produce had to washed in bleach water before consumed, in order to avoid the complications the North Korean defector exhibited.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Cellulose Powder = Wood by products = Sawdust

[DoodleBob]

This is somewhat off-topic, but when I was lurking FR in 2011, there was an article (which was actually posted by you, FRiend) covering Kim Jong-il's funeral. The article mentioned that footage of mourners showed a little boy wearing a NY Yankees ski cap.

In what remains (for me) THE greatest mockery of how this nation lies to its people and the world to cover up the human wreckage and suffering in NK,a Freeper satirized:

Kim Jong Ill Sr. pitched a perfect game against the ‘27 Yankees. No one on the Yankees hit the ball. 27 batters, 27 strike outs on 81 pitches. Kim hit 4 grand slams. Final score 16 to 0.

Whenever I read about NK being "outed," I think of this quote.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Lil Kimmy Young One’s orders give a whole new meaning to ESAD!

[Louis Foxwell]

She certainly would have sold him ours under packaging rights of the Clinton Foundation and shipped to the third world as “Hi Quality Made in America Clinton Crap.”

[lightman]

That explains how they get their zhitty ideas.

[vette6387]

“Ingredients: Ingredients: Parmesan Cheese (Pasteurized Part-Skim Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes), Cellulose Powder to Prevent Caking, Potassium Sorbate to Protect Flavor.

Cellulose Powder = Wood by products.”

And you will recall that ingredients are listed in the order of their percentage of the product. Cellulose powder is still #2, so they can get away with calling it “grated cheese.”

[butlerweave]

The Tourists that vacation in NK bring back more than just a great time ,LOL

[prophetic]

Meanwhile we send our chicken to China for processing and they ship it back without the warning. Just how greedy & stupid is that?

[TigerLikesRooster]

The use of it is nothing new, and had been going on before Kim's new directive. Going full steam with night soils would worsen the problem severely. All Asian countries are now producing more chemical fertilizers for farming, but N. Korea, instead of doing the same, is going backwards. Because Kim would rather pour money into missiles and nukes than dealing with serious public health problem. The shortage of chemical fertilizers are the result of their chronic power shortage.

They are back to pre-industrial level of parasite infection. If you compare N. Korea with some other countries several decades ago, N. Korea would be worse but not by much. However, in this age, the country stands out as a singular example of public health disaster.

This does not mean that we should send aids to help deal with the problem, because we are just encouraging N. Korea's tyrannical behavior, creating moral hazard. They create problems and we clean them up, while allowing them to freely pursue their WMD programs.

[snarkpup]

From the Wikipedia article on Night soil:

Night soil is a euphemism for human feces collected at night from cesspools, privies, etc. and sometimes used as a fertilizer. Another definition is "untreated excreta transported without water (e.g. via containers or buckets)".[1] The term "night soil" is more and more seen as a historical one, and is being replaced by "fecal sludge" and "fecal sludge management" which is an ongoing challenge to this day, particularly in developing countries.[2]