I have just read on the "Do you wash salad before consumption" thread that human faeces is used as fertiliser in some crops?

[Wrongn3mber]

Why? Isn't this against health and safety? this true? Is there anyway of finding out which supermarkets or brands adopt this practice?

[ChuckFickens]

There is certainly no doubting exactly what is being spread on the fields when you live next to them! it's a....err.... distinctive smell to say the least :)

[pink-kittens]

"Back to the health implications. Is animal fertliser safer than human"

nope, it's neither neither dependant on where in the UK you live

[Wrongn3mber]

Eh?

[pink-kittens]

think 'neeether' ' nyther'

[TonyV]

wrong - when you flush the loo, do you think you have have got rid of it. most dung makes good fertilizer for soil when compostd

[joeluke]

So if I cr @p on me taties it'll make em grow bigger?

[vivandorron]

I have found this crappy thread very interesting.

It doesn't bother me if organic matter is used as fertilizer; never mind where it comes from. I remember the old days in the country when we didn't have flush toilets and the deposits in our outside 'thunderboxes' went into the vegetable garden after being left for some months to compost........I'm still here well over 70 yrs latter.

Ron.

[ChuckFickens]

Ron... exactly!

Joe, yes! as unappetising as you may think it is, that's how it works when it comes to fertiliser.

[ladybirder]

Agree with you about the smell chuck. The farmer used to spread it on the field next to my cottage in N. Yorks and oh boy you knew when it had human waste in it.

[DTCwordfan]

wait until you got fish waste in it - holy mackerel it stinks.........

[Euphemia]

Sludge with human waste has been used for years. Perhaps there's a case for genetically modified crops.

[vivandorron]

There is a small snag with human faeces.......tomato seeds are not easily broken down when sewage is treated and can result in tomato plants growing amongst other crops.

http://news.bbc.co.uk...nd/humber/8239598.stm

I know from experience.

Ron.