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One side argument used against Total Animal Liberation is that animal exploitation and incarceration allows us to collect their droppings so that we can use it to fertilize our fields and keep the soil rich in nutrients. Some say that a vegetarian diet is only possible because fertilizer obtained from animals allows for large healthy crop yields and if fertilizer could not be had from them, then a vegetarian diet would be very difficult -- if not impossible.
That however, is unequivicably misleading and false. Human waste could easily step in and fill the absence of animal waste. Done properly, no health hazzard would automatically dismiss the use of human waste for crop fertilization. In fact, the environment would stand to benefit due to less animal waste contamination of streams and rivers and human waste would have a destination of purpose rather than to be expensively treated at large purification plants.
In Khokana, Nepal, villagers have embraced the most eco-friendly answer to human waste -- reusing it directly back into the food chain. Done properly, human waste, disinfected is quite safe and ideal for the environment as it it recycled.
In toilets made to be eco-friendly, solid waste is kept seperated from liquid waste and ash is used to raise the PH alkeleine level which kills bacteria.
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That however, is unequivicably misleading and false. Human waste could easily step in and fill the absence of animal waste. Done properly, no health hazzard would automatically dismiss the use of human waste for crop fertilization. In fact, the environment would stand to benefit due to less animal waste contamination of streams and rivers and human waste would have a destination of purpose rather than to be expensively treated at large purification plants.
In Khokana, Nepal, villagers have embraced the most eco-friendly answer to human waste -- reusing it directly back into the food chain. Done properly, human waste, disinfected is quite safe and ideal for the environment as it it recycled.
"The use of human waste as fertiliser is an ancient practice in Kathmandu," says Upendra Poudel, engineer at the Environment and Public Health Organisation (ENPHO), who designed the toilets. "By using ECOSAN toilets, the people in Khokana are preventing agricultural produce from being infected with germs present in human waste. Also, they are using very little water in their toilets, something that can be emulated by people living in our cities that face acute water shortage."
In toilets made to be eco-friendly, solid waste is kept seperated from liquid waste and ash is used to raise the PH alkeleine level which kills bacteria.
...Once full, ash is poured in and the container is sealed for six months before the waste is ready to be used as fertiliser. During the period, another pan is installed in the toilet.
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...Meanwhile, liquid waste, collected in a different container, is mixed with water before being sprinkled over the fields. "Urine has very low germ content while it is rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. These chemicals are instrumental in the growth of plants," explains Poudel [engineer at the Environment and Public Health Organisation (ENPHO)].
Read full story here: From Superstitious Village to Model in Sanitation
Read full story here: From Superstitious Village to Model in Sanitation