How to deal with... "waste"

[Big Daddy]

[And BD, your claim makes me think you are full of it!!]
Smells good to me.

Seriously I don't think I could deal with it. I used to hear that the Vietnamese used human waste to fertilize their rice. I always heard that human waste was not much good for fertilizer. I guess I heard wrong. Fortunately our horses put out more than we could ever use.

 

[Up-the-Creek]

Oh I shouldn't have opened this thread.
I cannot deal with the thought,..my SILs mother puts dog poo on her garden,...needless to say I don't eat anything from that garden. I am not eating nothing after a human or animal that eats meat,...or just human,...ewwwww.

 

[Beekissed]

I put dog doo on my roses once and they grew like crazy!

But people put pig poop on their gardens and pigs eat just about anything that moves.

 

[MorelCabin]

Remind me to start asking more questions when I visit the farmers market...I can deal with knowing my vegies are grown with animal poop as fertilizer...but I really have an issue with using human poop for growing food!

If the human was a vegan and never took any meds, would that change your mind?

It might to some degree...but then I think of all the diseases and worms we carry...yuck! We'd be eating things like syphilis and AIDS secretions...no thanks!

 

[Beekissed]

We're not talking about using someone else's poop, Morel....talking about using our own! If you have a disease you can't give yourself more of a disease!

You are soooo funny!

I know what you mean....but I think we are talking about using our own, safely-composted treasures.

 

[Up-the-Creek]

We're not talking about using someone else's poop, Morel....talking about using our own! If you have a disease you can't give yourself more of a disease!

You are soooo funny!

I know what you mean....but I think we are talking about using our own, safely-composted treasures.

Not if DH is using it!

 

[MorelCabin]

We're not talking about using someone else's poop, Morel....talking about using our own! If you have a disease you can't give yourself more of a disease!

You are soooo funny!

I know what you mean....but I think we are talking about using our own, safely-composted treasures.

Oh ya...you've never raised a teenager like my oldest...he would obviously have been using the same composting toilet as me...I don't do hot tubs for the same reason...a little paranoid maybe but I have my reasons

 

[Wolf-Kim]

I brought the idea of a composting toilet up to my hubby, he said H*** NO!.

Personally, I love the idea. I was worried that they would smell, but I've talked to several people who've used them and they all say, they really do just smell like wood chips. A friend of mine from Alaska, said the DMV he worked at had one.

No, when I talk composting toilet, I'm talking about the ones that rotate and look just like a normal porcelain toilet, I'm not talking about an outhouse. The idea of getting up in the middle of a cold winter night and having to venture outside to do my business. Yuck!

Granted the toilets that I want are $500-1000 and honestly, I would probably only install it in the master bathroom. I don't care to be dealing with other people's mess. Although, I think that I could/would get over it rather quickly, hubby on the other hand is going to need some more convincing.

I like the idea of a composting toilet. Why waste water only to flush your crap into a big tank that may need to be pumped, which also means a big hole dug in your lawn. Been there done that.

I wouldn't venture to put raw sewage on my garden, but actual compost, I could do that. Mix it right in with the rabbit, duck, chicken, goose, quail, horse, dog, cat, pig, and worm poo.

 

[FarmerChick]

hmm...imported rice huh?
not like we have been made sick or harmed from any products from overseas yet.

 

[Beekissed]

Me too, Kim. My animals basically eat what I eat and I use their poop ad lib. Properly composted, manure is no longer manure. It doesn't even smell like manure, but more like good, rich soil.

The problem with fecal matter used in agriculture in other countries...and I would venture to say, in our own...is that it hasn't been composted thoroughly, if at all. Neither has the poultry litter they spread on the fields around here and I can't imagine all the chemicals, medicines and diseases that the runoff contains from this stuff.

This is one of the reasons the fish are dying in our local streams and, since the poultry plants/producers are such a big thing here, the state does nothing about it.