A tale of two poos - attitudes towards the agricultural use of human excretion-based fertiliser differ between Japan and England as new research shows.
How tf do you think we’ve been managing to grow crops in the massive amounts we have? Pure wishful thinking?
The real answer is industrial chemical production processes and an increase in understanding of a lot of things. Traditional farming using dung is sooo last century; It’s inefficient, significantly increases the risk of various pathogens and is hard to control leading to excess runoff and plant damage.
The reason more traditional methods are being resurrected is because those processes really benifit from scaling which all but gauranties monopolization leading to price gouging etc.
…it’s manure. It’s literally shit. "Oh no, it’s not cow dung, it’s people ^dung , it’s people ^dung !
How tf do you think we’ve been managing to grow crops in the massive amounts we have? Pure wishful thinking?
Suburbia/urbanism has rotted the brains of people. We need more local farms and grow areas so people will grow tf up.
The real answer is industrial chemical production processes and an increase in understanding of a lot of things. Traditional farming using dung is sooo last century; It’s inefficient, significantly increases the risk of various pathogens and is hard to control leading to excess runoff and plant damage.
The reason more traditional methods are being resurrected is because those processes really benifit from scaling which all but gauranties monopolization leading to price gouging etc.
And what “traditional methods” is that? Something from two centuries ago? How about specifications?