Re: asking for the bathroom

At 08:12 PM Thursday 5/31/01, you wrote:

>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).
Human feces is actually very poor fertilizer. The human body removes
practically all the nutrients used by plants. Furthermore, feces is likely
to carry human diseases into the water and food supply.




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