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minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoThere’s a way to safely use poop for fertilizer. You have to compost it to kill pathogens first. Neither counties do this, and that’s one reason people get e-coli, parasites, and other diseases
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThe Romans did not understand this. Archeology digs in Roman latrines concluded most Romans carried parasites.
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWere those latrines lined? Did they place them sufficiently far from rivers and ground water? I don’t think they understood much about disease vectors and germ theory, in general.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoPete Hegseth says germ theory is fake. The concept of bacteria didn’t appear until almost 800 years later. Romans used poop to fertilize fields, but did not treat it.
There’s a way to safely use poop for fertilizer. You have to compost it to kill pathogens first.
Neither counties do this, and that’s one reason people get e-coli, parasites, and other diseases
The Romans did not understand this. Archeology digs in Roman latrines concluded most Romans carried parasites.
Were those latrines lined? Did they place them sufficiently far from rivers and ground water?
I don’t think they understood much about disease vectors and germ theory, in general.
Pete Hegseth says germ theory is fake.
The concept of bacteria didn’t appear until almost 800 years later. Romans used poop to fertilize fields, but did not treat it.