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Mexico Warns of Diarrhea Risk When Visiting US (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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A small recompense for decades of jokes at Mexico's expense, eh?

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[–] 200 points 3 months ago (18 children)

Lmao. I was at a grocery store the other day and buying some grapes. Some old 70+ year old lady said I shouldn't buy Mexican produce because they use poop for fertilizer. I laughed looked her in the face and asked her what she thought we used for fertilizer. She didn't like that.

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  • [–] 80 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    Just published today in The Guardian:

    The Trump administration has killed proposed regulations for sewage sludge contaminated with Pfas and spread on farmland as fertilizer, a practice that has sickened farmers, destroyed their livelihoods, killed livestock, polluted water supplies, and poisoned meat and food products sold to the public.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah he really cares about the heartland 🙄

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Allowing continued spreading of PFAS contaminated sludge is beyond horrible because those chemicals will stay there permanently. Around 1/3 or so of USA cropland is already polluted from spreading of sludges. There is nothing in nature that can break PFAS down, so all that polluted land will have to literally be removed and stored similar to hazardous nuclear waste.

    When we finally realize the damage and start work to repair it, it will be the largest remediation project in human history.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    I think nature will evolve/select some sort of bacteria that will digest PFAs and plastics, making it a problem that will solve itself. It'll only take a few hundred thousand years I reckon.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Real Americans use synthetic petroleum fertilizer like God intended.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    The Romans did not understand this. Archeology digs in Roman latrines concluded most Romans carried parasites.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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