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Lmao. I was at a grocery store the other day and buying some grapes. Some old 70+ year old lady said I shouldn't buy Mexican produce because they use poop for fertilizer. I laughed looked her in the face and asked her what she thought we used for fertilizer. She didn't like that.
70+-year-old ladies. It works so well because they're full of shit.
Just published today in The Guardian:
Yeah he really cares about the heartland 🙄
And the farmers will continue to vote Republican.
Fertilizer just increased 50% in price. Enjoy, hicks.
Allowing continued spreading of PFAS contaminated sludge is beyond horrible because those chemicals will stay there permanently. Around 1/3 or so of USA cropland is already polluted from spreading of sludges. There is nothing in nature that can break PFAS down, so all that polluted land will have to literally be removed and stored similar to hazardous nuclear waste.
When we finally realize the damage and start work to repair it, it will be the largest remediation project in human history.
I think nature will evolve/select some sort of bacteria that will digest PFAs and plastics, making it a problem that will solve itself. It'll only take a few hundred thousand years I reckon.
Real Americans use synthetic petroleum fertilizer like God intended.
If you're not an errant spark away from vaporizing the tri-county area by feeding your plants, can you really call yourself an american?
Fertilizer is already explosive
Why not skip farming entirely and just eat fat made from petroleum?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0263876221004275
That's lokey awesome.
My god it would have been so hard for me to reply to that politely.
Good on you for finding a way to do so.
There's a way to safely use poop for fertilizer. You have to compost it to kill pathogens first.
Neither counties do this, and that's one reason people get e-coli, parasites, and other diseases
The Romans did not understand this. Archeology digs in Roman latrines concluded most Romans carried parasites.
Were those latrines lined? Did they place them sufficiently far from rivers and ground water?
I don't think they understood much about disease vectors and germ theory, in general.
Pete Hegseth says germ theory is fake.
The concept of bacteria didn't appear until almost 800 years later. Romans used poop to fertilize fields, but did not treat it.
And the guy who suggested germs exist (cadaver particles) was locked up in an insane institution, where he died.
Yeah, we just call it "Biosolid" fertilizer.
Liquid cancer is much better