Re: asking for the bathroom
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 1, 2001, 17:52 |
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Tom Tadfor Little wrote:
>At 08:12 PM Thursday 5/31/01, you wrote:
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>>Other societies have surely valued feces as fertilizer, and
>>you certainly wouldn't want urine to be mixed with it if you
>>(or your tribe) grew vegetables (which dislike acidic soil).
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>Human feces is actually very poor fertilizer. The human body removes
>practically all the nutrients used by plants.
Is it? I'm told that the human digestive tract is remarkably inefficient
compared to most mammals', and human feces are thusly quite good as
fertilizer.
My history book claim that human feces was the main fertilizer in China for
a couple of millennia.
Andreas
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