Florida House Approves Use of Human Waste To Treat Crops For Human Consumption(Emphasis mine.)
Published 1, May 6, 2011
Some Chinese may be steaming eggs in urine but Florida is about to grow its crops in such waste. After a heavy lobbying effort by industry, Florida is about to rescind a ban on the use of human waste to treat crops. Soon more than 90 companies will be pumping waste from about 100,000 septic tanks on to their fields — an estimated 40 million gallons treated with lime. ...
We've only known of the dangers of doing this for, um, what? two or three millennia? I suppose the lime is supposed to make everything hunky-dory, but somehow I wouldn't want to depend on that to render the human waste literally safe for consumption.
And I thought Texas was bad...
Jeeze, maybe they'll elect a mad cow to Congress.
ReplyDeletemandt - but I thought Katherine Harris was retired from politics! :-)
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