I said pig feces, not manure because pig feces is the organic fertilizer used. They don't go out into fields picking piles of up cow, sheep or goat poop and then bring it back to the barn to add water in order to make it liquefy so they can spread it. Pig feces naturally comes liquefied, thus the organic fertilizer of choice out of economics over health. I know, I am surrounded by fields that are fertilized with it every year & is why I do not buy anything from those farmers. Jesus nor any of his people raised pigs. There is a reason Jesus cast the demons into a pig and not a cow, sheep or goat. And for the record, cantaloupe, nor any melon for that matter, are not grown on trees the last I checked.
Swine come with a different set of manure bacteria than from the herbivore ungulates (sheep, goats, cattle) because, like people, they are omnivores. They will eat flesh. Swine are forbidden from consumption by Jews and served as an illustration of ritual uncleanness in the demon possession incident you mention... but Jews were never told to forbid non-Jews to eat the meat of swine. That’s why there was open farming of swine going on in Palestine, and nobody was complaining.
If modern science says it has a way to manage the risk of porcine fecal bacteria, scientists should be able to empirically justify this versus the risks of other kinds of fertilizer. It would be impossible to hide the scandal if this were the same kind of hocus pocus that goes on with globull warming.
Could you explain what you said here? :)) “ Pig feces naturally comes liquefied”
Hog manure is not liquid. It’s a “firmish” “TURD”. In fact, it’s less liquid than cow plops (the reason they call them plops) Raised all sorts of animals, hog (turds), cow (plops), chickens (really plops) , goats (pills), horses (balls) , sheep (pills), geese & ducks (now there’s loose poop splats for you)
But justadumbeblonde (and now I) grow them on trellises. :)