(08-27-2021, 01:30 AM)Inquisitive Raven Wrote: I didn't get a screen cap so I don't think I can adequately replicate the stupid, but I was taking an online business class when this happened. The class using a composting business in India as an example to illustrate a point. Basically, the founders of the business compost sewage and sell it to farmers as fertilizer. One of the other students went off on a rant about how ingesting human waste is dangerous and throwing around words like "autointoxication." (Where's that facepalm emoji? Oh, there isn't one? Well, there should be)
I had to explain how the sewage feeds bacteria which produce food for plants which in turn produce food for people. Seriously, how does anyone not get this?
Actually, he's not completely wrong.
Using human waste, even composted human waste, directly to produce food for humans is a potential disease vector for certain diseases that inhabit the human intestinal tract. It is considerably safer to use it to grow food for animals and to consume those animals or their products, and to use the waste those animals produce after composting to directly grow food for humans.
He's still otherwise completely and utterly wrong about how that stuff works though.