• berrytopylus [she/her,they/them]
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    1 year ago

    These practices include such offenses as fertilizing garlic with human feces and forms of sewage, growing garlic in sewage

    From https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/you-asked/it-true-garlic-china-grown-human-feces-and-watered-urine

    there is no evidence that garlic in China is fertilized in this fashion. In any case, there is no problem with this, human waste is as effective a fertilizer as is animal waste. Spreading human sewage on fields that grow crops doesn't sound appealing, but it is safer than you might think.

    That would be my guess too at first glance. What do they think manure is if they're grossed out at sewage? As long as it's treated properly to reduce pathogens then it's just "ew yucky I don't like the real world".

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      God damn Americans are so divorced from the source of their food. I thought it was common knowledge that manure is a natural fertilizer.

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      They spray fields here with pig shit regularly it’s how salmonella gets into the bagged salad

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Tons of fertilizers are processed biosolids. Granulite and Milorganite are common brands.

      People freak out about the bacteria, PFAS, or pharmaceuticals that it introduces into the food supply, but it's not substantially different in quantity from animal waste which is the only other source used at scale.