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NYT to Farmers on Fertilizer Shortage: Hooray for Pee, It’s More Eco-Friendly Anyway
NewsBusters ^ | 6/20/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 06/20/2022 9:13:40 AM PDT by JV3MRC

The New York Times tried to inject a silver lining into the fertilizer shortage gripping American farmers by telling them to use pee as a substitute to help foster a so-called green transition.

Times climate journalist Catrin Einhorn belched in an absurd news item that the worldwide “shortage of chemical fertilizer” she blamed on “the war in Ukraine” can potentially be solved by human urine. “It just so happens that human urine has the very nutrients that crops need,” she claimed, praising how urine “has a lot more [nutrients], in fact, than Number Two, with almost none of the pathogens.”

Einhorn then dismissed the utility of chemical fertilizer because it doesn’t mix with climate wokeism. “Farmers typically apply those nutrients — nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium — to crops in the form of chemical fertilizers,” she wrote. “But that comes with a high environmental cost from fossil fuels and mining.” Einhorn quoted Rich Earth Institute Education Coordinator Julia Cavvichi using a cringe pun, which ironically summed up the silliness of Einhorn’s entire piece: “‘Hashtag PeeTheChange.’”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: agriculture; anwr; bidenflation; blogpimp; farmers; fertilizer; food; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; kathyhochul; keystonexl; newyork; nyt; opec; pee; supply
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To: JV3MRC
The tomato plants in my garden have their first little baby
green tomatoes on them as of last week.

So if I don't go out and piss on my tomato plants I could
be accused of vegetable gardening using 'ecologically hostile' methods?

So be it.
I'll change my FR screen name to: EHOVG -

- the "Ecologically Hostile Organic Vegetable Gardener'.

Sound about right?

/s

21 posted on 06/20/2022 9:40:57 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: JV3MRC
Times climate journalist Catrin Einhorn

Hmmm. Any relation to Earth Day founder and murderer Ira Einhorn?

22 posted on 06/20/2022 9:44:56 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: hoosierboy

Brawndo’s got what plants crave


23 posted on 06/20/2022 9:45:06 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: JV3MRC

Most of the country is on some form of prescription drugs, traces of which may come out in urine. Hence a urine test for drugs.


24 posted on 06/20/2022 9:49:11 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: Brookhaven
You can buy it in Malawi

https://www.dw.com/en/malawi-turning-urine-into-a-source-of-wealth/a-52809077

25 posted on 06/20/2022 9:53:11 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: JV3MRC

If u fert with pee, it has to cure for a week or more... then it’s really ripe.

Worse than fish emulsion.


26 posted on 06/20/2022 10:02:43 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: JV3MRC
Hmmmm...where have I seen this concept before....oh yea, right...North Korea! Kim Jong-un Tells Farmers To Use Their Poop For Fertilizer. What Follows Is Really Creepy.

According to Yahoo News, in 2014 Kim Jong-un instructed farmers to mix human feces with animal waste and organic compost to make fertilizer for their fields. Yahoo notes, “With a lack of livestock to provide animal fertilizer, agriculturists poured the human excrement, also known as ‘night soil,’ on their fields.”

Choi Min-Ho, a professor at Seoul National University College of Medicine who specializes in parasites, told Reuters, “Although we do not have solid figures showing health conditions of North Korea, medical experts assume that parasite infection problems and serious health issues have been prevalent in the country.”

One North Korean army staff sergeant who escaped to South Korea was found to have dozens of flesh colored parasites in his digestive tract; one was 10.6 inches in length. Lead surgeon Lee Cook-jong stated, “In my over 20 year-long career as a surgeon, I have only seen something like this in a textbook.”

27 posted on 06/20/2022 10:04:36 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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28 posted on 06/20/2022 10:06:35 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: JV3MRC

Human and animal waste was used fertilizer rom the start of the Neolithic Revolution. The population supported by this source of nitrogen was a fraction of the current population. In other words, the elimination of modern fertilizers will mean billions will starve


29 posted on 06/20/2022 10:32:21 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

It used to be the urea that was a by-product of the meat packing plants that was made into fertilizer...along with bones.


30 posted on 06/20/2022 10:47:40 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: JV3MRC

There is that other source of fertilizer...bones.


31 posted on 06/20/2022 10:53:45 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: GaltAdonis

Picking my tomatos and canning them since last week.

BTW, keep pissing on the same plant for a while and see what happens.

It will kill even a goat head vine.


32 posted on 06/20/2022 11:33:49 AM PDT by crz
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
"I recommend cannibalism to New Yorkers in the coming famine, and suggest they start at the New York Times."


33 posted on 06/20/2022 11:47:45 AM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: JV3MRC

Libtards finally admitting what we already knew - they’re pissing all over us 🤪


34 posted on 06/20/2022 11:49:42 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: JV3MRC

This just in, silly chick from New York has never seen the size of farm fields in western Kansas.


35 posted on 06/20/2022 12:18:59 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: dfwgator

Finally, a solid career path for illegals as farm fertilizers.


36 posted on 06/20/2022 12:26:59 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: dfwgator; rlmorel; Gay State Conservative

A wicked pissah!


37 posted on 06/20/2022 12:28:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Bus No. 2525)
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To: Bob434

Enslaved African kid in some horrible mountaintop dump: “I’m digging up your battery minerals as fast as I can, American leftists!”


38 posted on 06/20/2022 12:29:32 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Bus No. 2525)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

I suggest farmers treat NYC like California treats red states. Forbid any crops from being shipped there because of the stupid opinion of the NY Times. Punish the whole city for keeping the stupid paper in business.


39 posted on 06/20/2022 12:31:11 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: JV3MRC; 100American; al baby; Allegra; BufordP; DoodleBob; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; ...

“Now get up there and piss in the g*ddamn radiator!” — old reference

DANG!


40 posted on 06/20/2022 12:31:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Bus No. 2525)
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