Posted on 12/30/2010 2:35:47 PM PST by smokingfrog
SEOUL — Shops selling human excrement began operating in North Korea this year, as acute shortages of fertilizer in the sanctions-wracked country put a price on feces, an analyst said Tuesday.
Aid groups have said human waste has long been used on domestic crops in the impoverished communist state, but there is now a trade in the readily available commodity, a North Korea analyst told a seminar at a South Korean university.
“Each household used to use human excrement as fertilizer. But because it’s hard to keep up with the amount, ‘human manure’ shops showed up at markets,” Kim Young-Soo, a professor at Seoul’s Sogang University, told the seminar.
The lack of fertilizer has become acute since South Korea stopped annual shipments of rice and fertilizer to North Korea in 2008, amid worsening relations.
Kim also said other Products making their way on to a limited must-have list for North Koreans this year included skinny jeans, after a ban on fashionable trousers was lifted.
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sh!t
We use it here. Do a search for “Milorganite”
Skinny Jeans?
How about Skeletal Jeans?
Yes but it’s treated and stuff is added to it, it’s not just straight poop. I can’t imagine North Korea having a lot of money and facilities dedicated to turning that into a refined fertilizer product like Milorganite.
The Glorious Leader’s leavings go for a premium price.
You first need to eat food to produce human excrement.
No wonder there is a shortage of the latter.
SOYLENT_GREEN_PING!
Yeah we’ve been using it since I was a youngster working on the farm. I believe the restrictions on it were that it be that it not be used to raise food crops for people.
Hey, when the Norks say they don’t give a crap, they’re not kidding. They’ll sell it to you, though.
” believe the restrictions on it were that it be that it not be used to raise food crops for people.”
Correct! Used on shrubs, flowers, and White House lawns.
Sum Dung Poo sells the premium grade.
Thar’s GOLD in them thar hills (of poop)!
Not to be outdone, the White Crib announced that its administration has retroactively pedaled feces to the American people since before the Emaculation.
No doubt there is a massive surplus of human excrement from neighboring China.
Crapitalism in progress.
There's plenty in Washington DC we can ship to them.
Maybe FR could have a fund raising drive to purchase a 1 year subscription (at a bulk rate) of numerous copies of the that well known Leftist rag called the Washington Compost. It’ll do their soil good!
Make sure it is addressed to Mr. Ronery.
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