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Regarding use of "human manure," it's my understanding that sewage sludge
may be used in the US as a soil treatment for non-human-edible crops, and
in fact that a good bit of it is recycled that way. (See "Garbage Land --
On the Secret Trail of Trash, by Elizabeth Royte)
I, like a number of others who have posted on the subject, have no real
objection to the type of family farming where nearly everything gets used or
recycled. (My father grew up in farming country, and it's amazing how
effective they were in using the resources they had.) It's the industrial
farming that is so problematic. I'm a vegetarian who also happens to
greatly miss the taste of beef, chicken, and pork, but I've decided not to
provide any profits to industrial farming and finding low environmental impact
sources of those meats is generally impractical where I live.
BTW, I've read that some of the by-products of biofuel production can be
further used, e.g., for seedcake for animals (?). If not usable to
make another product, are the residuals reapplied to the fields? I
would think they would still retain much of their mineral, and perhaps other
valuable soil conditioners, after the biofuel is extracted.
Bob
In a message dated 7/11/2005 12:19:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I don't think that the practice [applying human manure to farms] is allowed in the U.S. regardless |
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