NYT to Farmers on Fertilizer Shortage: Hooray for Pee, It’s More Eco-Friendly Anyway

NewsBusters ^ | 6/20/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

[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.’”

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Pissing in your garden PING.

[Rappini]

When I was stationed in Korea in the late 50’s they used to fertilize their corps with humman waste.

[Oscar in Batangas]

I’d say it was more of a golden lining rather than silver!

[willfulknowledge]

But it makes sense to ship it from Russia?

“One of the biggest problems, though, is that it doesn’t make environmental or economic sense to truck urine, which is mostly water, from cities to distant farmlands.”

[Rebelbase]

I watch farming videos of a dairy guy in Mass who spreads manure in fields bordered by million dollar home subdivisions. I laugh every time I see it.

[Rebelbase]

So Donald Trump was supposedly just doing agricultural research in that Russian hotel room?

[Billthedrill]

Wonderful I suppose if you’re going to treat your vegetable garden but a bit of a challenge to scale up to industrial farming. As a true patriot I should be happy to help fertilize somebody’s north 40 but they’re going to have to buy the beer.

[Organic Panic]

First... How many farmers are at the NYT?
Two... Many municipal sewer treatment plants already sell the solids as fertilizer.
Three... Just how will all the ‘pee’ be transported to the farms?
Four... Piss off NYT

[griswold3]

Forever chemicals’ may have polluted 20m acres of US cropland, study says
This article is more than 1 month old
PFAS-tainted sewage sludge is used as fertilizer in fields and report finds that about 20m acres of cropland could be contaminated
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/08/us-cropland-may-be-contaminated-forever-chemicals-study

[GaltAdonis]

"...It will kill even a goat head vine."

If I ever get back to Oregon I'll have to try it on wild blackberry brambles.

[martin_fierro]

Times climate journalist Catrin Einhorn

Any relation to the Earth Day Founder/murderer?

[martin_fierro]

BAH! BEAT ME TO IT

[SamAdams76]

Every bar and tavern should have a vegetable garden growing next to it. Patrons can just walk outside and relieve themselves there.

This will definitely save money on restroom cost.