“Go pee on the rhubarb!”
In medieval times they used to have pee buckets to collect men’s urine. The urine would be allowed to rest until it had a high concentration of ammonia, which in turn was used to set vegitable based dyes (inexpensive and new technology
then). Medieval times were actually filled with vibrant color, much more like the technicolor movies pre-1960 than the later movies that show medieval colors of dull browns and grays. I guess we need to set up a separate system for the collection of urine. Maybe cities can finally do thier part. ;)
Now I know why rhubarb pie is so tart.
Eat bugs and pee on your plants. What an awful world is being forced on us.
...it can make some pretty good firecrackers!!
Daddy rabbit: “This radish is kind of pithy.”
Junior rabbit: “Well it should be; I just got done pithing on it!”
Visualize world pees
Bad idea. Ever wonder why we see E. coli and other pathogens on lettuce and other green food crops? Water reclamation done poorly.
Tree farms for years have taken bio solids and applied it to the soils and municipalities here sell or sometimes gives it away to home gardeners. They always tell you NOT to use it on vegetable soils.
I don’t know about feeding the world but i pee around the flowers in my yard during the spring, summer and fall to keep the deer away. Works great.
http://richearthinstitute.org/
https://humanurehandbook.com/
Half or more of the population is taking prescription drugs so their excrements are no good for fertilizer.
I don’t like rhubarb.
And I don’t like pee.
Urea has been a known fertilizer for decades.
https://www.fertilizer-machine.com/solution/urea-fertilizer.html
It sounds gross but waste facilities already harvest lots of minerals from piss and poop. If we can use/recycle it more efficiently, then by all means do so.
“Go pee on the rhubarb!”
But any rural kid knows this means peeing around the rhubarb. Not on it. The soil and organism will filtrate.
As in Nancy Pelousi’s pee-pole?
Does anybody remember that Penn and Teller show “Bu11sh1t”...? They made fun of things like recycling and Christians. (They never ridiculed Islam or Scientology, though! Like, NEVER.)
There was one episode where they spent time ridiculing people who think the bathroom has “germs” in it. “Urine is not bad for you! Germs don’t grow in it.” The idea is that we’re so hung up on cleanliness, haha, what a joke.
In fact lots of molds, bacteria, and other crazy things flourish in pee and keeping containers of human pee around is a pretty stupid idea.
Yes, cattle p1ss is a main ingredient in a lot of fertilizers and of course all those old women have to take their pregnant mare urine pills every day so they can keep having periods (and hot flashes) into their 70s, whee. (Who doesn’t like hot flashes? It always makes me feel SO WOMANLY when I break out in a sweat entering an air-conditioned convenience store!)
So, yeah - urine can be useful. But saving your own urine for any reason besides “my doctor told me to” is a bad idea. (And if your doctor wants more than a small cup of your pee, you might want to find another doctor.)
It’s like our libwad overlords are just trying to see how far we can be pushed again.
In the “Bu11sh1t” show they DID do a recycling experiment with some folks in San Francisco that included finding out whether they would be ok with saving used toilet paper for recycling. About half the folks in the experiment were ok with it.
You know, human ingenuity is a great thing, but there’s no historical time when our ingenuity was any stronger than it is now. I’m pretty sure that if there was a practical use for human pee, it would have been discovered by now.
Of course, everyone into gardening knows what “night soil” is. The French have been using human poop to grow outrageously fine vegetables for centuries. But they’re, you know, French. They get used to bad smells and being sick all the time at an early age.
It’s a little gentler on the plants to dilute it with water first.
Our aim is to feed the world.
Your aim will help.
