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Seesh, we’re all too removed from a lot of this stuff. I’ll wager there is no ‘raw sewage’, or even anything close coming from these outhouses going on to any fields that raise foods directly consumed by humans.

Check out any large dairy farm or hog farm. The excrement (i.e. raw sewage) is collected, stored, loaded into tanks or wagons pulled by a tractor, and sprayed on the fields. Any excess is simply sprayed on the farm next door, you know, the one that doesn't have cows or hogs, but grows tomatoes or cabbage, and that farmer says, "Thank you".

Are we heading for an Upton Sinclair moment?? Ban manure and our food production will gradually decrease to the point where we won't be able to feed ourselves much less the rest of the world.

Thanks, you’ve proved my point. We’re WAY too far removed from to know our food is produced, and that’s not a good thing.

I’ve raised over 250,000 hogs. Usually they received a big premium at the slaughter house because they were of the highest quality.

Among my other duties, I was the one who was in charge of pumping the manure onto the fields. One of my other distasteful duties was killing sick animals. I’ve shot thousands.

Many, many times I was drenched to the bone with hog manure, but none of what you posted was even remotely true, even way back then. With today’s EPA the foolishness you talk about would result in fines in the hundreds of thousands and no farm would risk it.

Just as the media cannot distinguish between semi autos from real machine guns they also cannot tell the difference between "raw sewage" and composting.

Composting entails taking the “"raw sewage"” placing it in a pile and mixing it with other leafy vegetation as well as other soils( depending on what you have on hand and your needs) occasionally turning it and leave it to "cook"i.e, breakdown by micros into nutrient rich soil after at least a year.

This is what you pay big bucks for this "potting soil" at your local garden store.

Farmers have been doing this for centuries, long before the era of petroleum based fertilizers times.

Raw sewage will burn the roots of a plant thus killing it. Plus if the Amish were doing it wrong, there would be be mass outbreaks of typhoid, Salmonella poisonings etc, etc. in Amish communities that third world countries get from true raw sewage

We did the same thing with cow mature to grow our garden year after year and got great harvests and stocked pantries and nobody ever got sick from food poisoning.

Something the "government inspected" Food industry cannot claim.

And unlike the corporates heads of major industrial Food producers and restaurants, the Amish regularly consume what they produce.

Uneducated bureaucrats and the media will be the death of our freedoms as well as our persons.