[Vigilanteman]

The ultimate green technolgy is using the "honey bucket" to directly fertilize crops. We stopped doing that sometime back in the 1940's when we found out that it could have all kinds of severe consequences such as passing e coli organism on to certain vegetables. The enlightened Chinese have never stopped. < / sarcasm >

[Tarpon]

Hey I lived in Japan with the honey buckets, and the open sewers in the streets ... And boy did it stink.

Didn’t they do the same honey bucket thing in enlightened Europe until just recent times? Something I seem to recall about plagues and all.

[Zhang Fei]

We stopped doing that sometime back in the 1940's when we found out that it could have all kinds of severe consequences such as passing e coli organism on to certain vegetables. The enlightened Chinese have never stopped.

This is one of the reasons salads that include uncooked veggies are generally not part of Chinese cuisine.