Posted on 11/18/2017 6:14:33 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
KIM JONG UN MAY HAVE CAUSED A PARASITIC WORM EPIDEMIC IN NORTH KOREA BY MAKING FARMERS SPREAD HUMAN FAECES ON THEIR CROPS
The prevalence of parasitic worms causing health problems in North Korea may be the result of a personal intervention by Kim Jong Un, who urged farmers to spread human excrement on their fields to fertilize crops.
The hermit nation’s leader issued an instruction to farmers in 2014 telling them to use human faeces with animal waste and organic compost on their fields. With a lack of livestock to provide animal fertilizer, agriculturists poured the human excrement, also known as “night soil”, on their fields.
Kim’s pronouncement further precipitated the falsehood in North Korea that human waste was the best fertilizer for crops despite the dangerous parasites and worms found within in it, Reuters reported.
The nutrition and widespread health problems that blight North Korea have been highlighted by one North Korean soldier who has recently defected to the south. The army sergeant was found to have dozens of flesh colored parasites in his digestive tract, one of which measured 10.6 inches in length.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Chinese farmers have been fertilizing with composted human waste for centuries; it’ why we were told to never eat salad when we were in China in the early 80’s and to always peel our fruit before eating.
...making the life of N. Korean elites “harder.”... It is not a punishing blow.”......
Nor can it be for the elites......they have easy access to leave the country if push comes to shove....but many wouldn’t because they wouldn’t be ‘elites’ outside N.Korea. Besides
he’ll starve his own military first who currently get little to begin with after the officers get more than their share to sell on the streets. Corruption is high in the military.
Certainly China is not doing enough to roll back NK nuclear/missile program. That is why pressure has to be constantly applied to China.
Well I don’t know about you but I sure as hell like my dinner salad boiled
but no one will admit that because then they’ll focus on the negotiations....
So as said we just have to remember, sanctions don’t work until they do.........
....the problem remains who is going to invest to do the infastructure?
China and Russia want the new Belt and Road project to extend through N.Korea.
'Song Tao' has been designated as President Xi Jinping's special envoy to visit
North Korea for Friday's get together with N Korea leadership....
Wood isn’t necessarily bad for you. A tree is just another plant that grows in the Earth
We need the will and means to make sure China sticks to the deal or whatever Xi promised to Trump.
Indeed...yet China knows N.Korea isn't going to hand over their Nuclear ambitions and neither does China want them to. There's a lot of world stage movement with China and Russia's partnerships going on in trade and investment deals that benefit them both...... I'm not comfortable with how things are playing out as these two play tag team on the world stage.....most definitely gaining economic and trade ‘power’....as well technological advances. FatBoy will co-operate with them for a price.....but it won't be turning over his nuclear ambitions. Imo it'll be just further stalling.....while China and Russia position themselves.
N Korea has been a great 'distraction' while China and Russia...have been busy bees around the globe since Obama threw them together.and they've had 8 yrs of running to get where they are now.......I recall distinctly when Russia turned to Asia and China..... he was jetting like mad man all over Asia and the East....
It was amusing to watch the about-face Obama made regarding Russia. He was going too far in cozying up to Putin for nuclear arms reduction, and then turned Russia into an archenemy overnight when Ukraine crisis broke out. Mindless stupidity at work.
Yep.....Putin had gained quite a bit with European countries .....G-20’s being hosted in Russia..Sochi Olympics etc.....he was a very happy camper...until Obama showed up..... I do believe Putin had zero respect for Obama, (well deserved in fact), and frankly just didn’t like the man...... Obama thought he could play tough guy hoodi with Putin and he saw right through it and at best tolerated Obama for the duration. He saw Obama weak because he was weak.
It was also amusing to see Obama about face with his Asia tour once he recognized the game had changed and both China and Russia were playing more than footsy............I laughed when he hurridly sent michele and her mom to China to “hold his place in line”...LOLOLOL.....
However we laugh....what China and Russia...along with Turkey are doing on the world stage is no laughing matter....with N.Korea thrown into the mix....and Iran’s hugging whoever will hug them back.
“If it’s not composted properly, and the humans have worms, worms will spread. Duh.”
Composting main purpose is to render manure’s nitrogen more bio available to plants and to dilute oligo-elements into more humus by adding plants fiber. It let soil microorganisms work first before feeding plants.
Fresh manure is too much concentrated, most of its nutrient is lost into the air as nitrogen oxides or washed away by water, contrary to some common thinking, it makes a very cr.ppy fertilizer and it is a public safety problem to use it to grow vegetables.
I will not buy or eat food imported from any Asian country for the reasons you post. Those people could not care less about food safety. If it doesn’t come from Canada or the USA, I don’t buy it.
Duh! They have been doing this for thousands of years, still do in the South. Hated PT runs outside the base, running the rice paddy dikes. Hard to say which is worse, hot or cold.
It is an old practice in Korea. In the 1960s when I was in South Korea, there was an old man who went around the nearby village in the middle of the night, collecting “night soil” he sold to local farmers. A local noodle shop owner told me it was a job he inherited from his father and the only work he’d ever known.
You! Over there! Why are you an organic buyer? Are you some kind of LIBERAL?
The Norks could make a fortune if they’d sell the produce in California. “Certified 100% Organic. No Chemical fertilizer used.”
They are regressing back past 60’s to 50’s.
North Korea = hell on earth...
Just a germ fanatic with an extremely Conservative bent Laz! You are too funny!
Ancient Attica
The use of sewage as fertilizer was common in ancient Attica. The sewage system of ancient Athens collected the sewage of the city in a large reservoir and then channelled it to the Cephissus river valley for use as fertilizer.[3] China, Hong Kong, and Singapore: A woman carrying buckets of night-soil, photographed in 1871.
The term is known, or even infamous, among the generations that were born in parts of China or Chinatowns (depending on the development of the infrastructure) before 1960. Post-World War II Chinatown, Singapore, before the independence of Singapore, utilized night-soil collection as a primary means of waste disposal, especially as much of the infrastructure was damaged and took a long time to rebuild following the Battle of Singapore and subsequent Japanese Occupation of Singapore. Following the development of the economy and the standard of living after independence, the night soil system in Singapore is now merely a curious anecdote from the time of colonial rule when new systems developed.
The collection method is generally very manual and heavily relies on close human contact with the waste. During the Nationalist era when the Kuomintang ruled mainland China, as well as Chinatown in Singapore, the night soil collector usually arrived with spare and relatively empty honey buckets to exchange for the full honey buckets. The method of transporting the honey buckets from individual households to collection centers was very similar to delivering water supplies by an unskilled laborer, with the exception that the item being transported was not at all potable and it was being delivered from the household, rather than to the household. The collector would hang full honey buckets onto each end of a pole he carried on his shoulder and then proceeded to carry it through the streets until he reached the collection point.
Hong Kong has a similar euphemism for night soil collection, 倒夜香 dàoyèxiāng, which literally means "emptying nocturnal fragrance".
The reuse of feces as fertilizer was common in Japan. In Edo city, compost merchants gathered feces to sell for farmers. That was good additional income for apartment owners. Human excreta of rich people were sold at higher prices because their diet was better; presumably, more nutrients remained in their excreta. Various historic documents dating from the 9th century detail the disposal procedures for toilet waste.[4]
Selling human waste products as fertilizers became much less common after World War II, both for sanitary reasons and because of the proliferation of chemical fertilizers, and less than 1% is used for night soil fertilization. The presence of the United States occupying force, by whom the use of human waste as fertilizer was seen as unhygienic and suspect, was also a contributing factor: "the Occupationaires condemned the practice, and tried to prevent their compatriots from eating vegetables and fruit from the local markets".[5]
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