Farmers Use Human Urine as Fertilizers, Pesticide

The Sunday Monitor - Uganda ^ | August 19, 2007 | By Joseph Mazige

[golfisnr1]

That stuff burns out grass on the golf course.

[Past Your Eyes]

"process is completed when the smell of ammonia becomes pervasive"

Sign me up for this program. I love the smell of ammonia.

/s

[neodad]

Urine is also good to repel ants.

[Orange1998]

Same happens near a septic system. I hear it makes good crops.

[cripplecreek]

We use processed sewage on fields in this country too. I think farmers are restricted to using it on crops fed to livestock.

When I was a teenager working on the farm I dreaded picking rocks out of the few fields the farmer sprayed the sewage on.

[ClearCase_guy]

I have no idea if this is safe or not. But I am reminded that some of the food and some of the products that we import from other countries turn out to be less safe than we thought.

Buying American looks better and better.

[capt. norm]

That stuff burns out grass on the golf course.

Hope you didn't 'sign your name' in the grass so they know who did it.

[Gabz]

Master Gardener Jerry Baker has a number of garden “tonic” recipes that include the use of human urine.

[sionnsar]

Also traditionally used for the milling (fulling, waulking) of tweed cloth in Scotland.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

That’s why they let it “ferment” for 28 days. ;-)

[RC2]

Ancient Rome used urine to clean clothes. That’s how they got their garments so white. They even had public places in the center of Rome to collect the urine.

[TASMANIANRED]

In colonial times...the straw from the stables was used in the production of gun powder...

[cripplecreek]

I’ve read that urine was a common ingredient in Roman laundry.

[sionnsar]

I have no idea if this is safe or not.

My understanding is it's quite sterile. Many generations of Gaels survived pounding (by hand) newly-woven tweedcloth soaked in this with no apparent ill effects. (It does not appear to be linked to Bagpipe Affinity Syndrome.)

[bill1952]

Welcome to the 21st century, folks.

[Delacon]

Who leaked this? I am pissed off. This whole article is a piss poor argument. If this catches on we can expect agribusiness to sing “Urine the Money”.

[cripplecreek]

3 cheers for urine



HIP HIP URINE

HIP HIP URINE

HIP HIP URINE!!!

[Nervous Tick]

>> Who leaked this? I am pissed off. This whole article is a piss poor argument. If this catches on we can expect agribusiness to sing “Urine the Money”.

Why did you piss away four good posts in one shot?

[Nervous Tick]

>> My understanding is it’s quite sterile.

Yeah, if you have bacteria (or blood) in your bladder, something’s wrong with you.