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Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards (english.elpais.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

usually its very unsanitory to shit in your crops, because you spread bacteria that is more harmful other people. its different from a cows dung feces over humans. E-coli being one of them, thats why they use manure of herbivorious animals over carnivores/omnivores, meat eaters have more potential to have parasites too, in the old ways. but they use synthetical manufactuered fertilizers to avoid the problems altogether.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago*

    What about herbivorous humans :P

    Yeah, despite the older traditions, it is nowadays not recommended to shit directly in the crop area. And turns out traditions of a time only work at that time and place, which might depend upon other, seemingly unrelated traditions.

    But it would still be better off under the soil than on a paved street.

    I guess I understand another reason for that in China. Because most of them ate some sort of meat, shitting in the fields might have ended up being a bad practice.
    But still, what's up with shitting on the streets? Did they somehow just rely on the dogs to clean up the streets?

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