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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 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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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 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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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 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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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

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.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 point 3 months ago

And the guy who suggested germs exist (cadaver particles) was locked up in an insane institution, where he died.

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