Human Waste Fertilizer

[Marty]

Last summer we were in the valley working on our other farm and all of a sudden there was the most sickening smell I have ever experienced. It was so bad I couldn't stand it. My husband thought it was something being processed at the coal mines nearby. It didn't subside and honestly I was getting ready to puke it was that bad so I got in my truck and drove home.

Yestarday that smell returned to the same place and I found out what it was. The farm on the adjoining property is fertilizing with none other that HUMAN WASTE. Are you kidding me?Who knew? Not me, that's for sure. Where's they get it???? And from who??? ewwwwwwww I've never heard of it but apparently it comes in some liquid form and is sprayed from these really big trucks, the kind of trucks that haul gas. I don't know if it works or not and I don't care. I never want to smell that again for the rest of my life.PU

 

[Nathan Luszcz]

They do that with cattle too Liquid manure spreaders.

 

[susanne]

I'm a believer in organic food and sustainable living, but NOT humanure. It grosses me out. I would like to have a composting toilet, but we'd let the output go back into the earth to age for a generation or so. I think we're going to see a lot more of this, but not on the faux farm.

 

[Riverrose28]

I live on the Nanjemoy pennisala in So. Md. The Wash. Post called us a third world country several yrs. back. I live on a mane road as we are isolated and there are two bridges to access our little peice of ground. When they wash out we are stuck, hasn't happened in a few yrs. but what the hay. IN the fall there are trucks that carry what we call sludge right in front of our property, My goodness does it stink! One day two yrs. ago I got in my truck and followed one of these trucks, they went about six miles from my place to another farm, I turned around and went home, after some research I found out they use this as fertizer for vegtables! Holy cow! It came from a water treatment plant in Wash, DC. How sick is that? Glad I grow my own veggies, I don't want any of theres!

 

[Nathan Luszcz]

Its quite healthy Just undesirable lol. Most things grow quite well in poop!

 

[ozymandias]

"Its quite healthy".

I'm not sure with all of the prescription and non prescription drugs we as a species use that it could be anywhere near healthy! Maybe they should just collect it from organic humans lol.

 

[susanne]

Done properly, it is perfectly healthy, but to me it is still perfectly disgusting. I may be silly ( in fact, I know I am), but we choose what organic steps we take, and that's not one for us.

 

[mini horse mania]

The local septic tank people here do it..they spray it on a hay field,bale round bales and' sell it for cow hay...my in laws bought some not kniwing,and believe it or not,,there was feminine products all in,the hay with toilet paper...it,was gross at the least....the hay didnt smell but,their spraying did!!!

 

[Marty]

I'm totally gagging

 

[HGFarm]

It's totally healthy? This is probably why we have seen such an increase during recent years in recalls on things like spinach and other things that are poisoning people- it's a great source of salmonella, etc....

Here's some info that will thrill you to death...

http://www.usludgefree.org/risk.html

 

[Debby - LB]

gross and I thought the fertilizer from the rendering plant was sick!

 

[susanne]

It's all a matter of time before everything goes back to the earth. As they say...ashes to ashes, dust to dust. That includes dead bodes, except perhaps those interred in lead-lined caskets. Today's farmland includes yesterday's outhouse, old burial grounds, etc. I'm a wimp. I admit it. I don't choose to eat animals I have cared for, I don't bury animals of any sort in our compost (talk about gross!) and I won't fertilize with humanure or dog or cat waste. But do I know what has gone into the soil before we were here? Do you know what has gone on in your garden soil?

Perhaps I've ruined dinner for some, and for that I apologize.

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