"Just don't come back here and post about it in the comments."
So, is that a warning, or a challenge?

i make my own manure at home
in the bathroom

Yes, officer, I did take a dump on my neighbor's flowerbed...but I was composting!

Warning to fecophobes... Don't (or do) read this book (or don't). I don't give a crap because I'm keeping it for myself.

@Xerloq: Like Carlin said: Take crap? well, don't take mine!!

@gStein: It's cheaper and better for you.

But I still keep ine in a credit union.

Actually, does anybody still say the credit union thing?

@gStein: I make my own manure-making books at home.

Can we add this book as a square to consumerist comments bingo?

I wondered why everything from Joe's garden tasted like shit!

I wonder how long it will be before someone somewhere logs onto Craigslist and posts and ad for "FREE HUMANURE L@@@@@@K!!!!!!!!!"

What a load...

Using human manure is a great way to spread disease.

@Trai_Dep: Its Chris posting, so hes just kidding about it.

Had it been Roz, it would read something like: "Say "DIY" again. Say "DIY" again! I dare you! I double-dare you, motherfucker! Say "DIY" one more goddamn time!"

Also, Bingo!

@cmdrsass: it's my favorite way to spread disease, actually

Does anybody know how well this would work at all? I had always thought that waste from carnivorous or omnivorous creatures made poor manure, and that's why dog crap killed yards rather than making yards happy.

@huadpe: LOL!

@tonalanswer: OMG terrorist!

@korybing - You have to compost it first. Otherwise, yes, it spreads disease and all kinds of other stuff. Heavy metals and other mineral bad stuff is a different matter. It comes from being at the tippy-top of the food chain - you not only eat your steak, you eat whatever the cow ate, whatever the animal that crapped in the field that produced the food for the cow ate, and so on. So humanure tends to contain lots of mercury, lead, and other bad stuff you probably don't want to reingest by using it as fertilizer.

@CFinWV: gives new meaning to the phrase "dirty bomb," doesn't it?

Who needs to buy books when you can make your own books at home for half the price?

@cmdrsass: And meats from factory farms and slaughter houses is cleaner because you don't see what goes on?

BTW, I do eat meat (chicken). I just don't find composting feces gross since it doesn't go directly from bum to garden.

Come on Consumerist-
This is a thinly veiled ploy to make a whole NEW thread about poop.

not that I'm complaining- poo is funny.

But TWO Poo threads in a week?
The place is goin' to shit, I tells ya!

*snicker*

@korybing: in theory it would work, but in places where they use "night soil", there is a huge spread of disease and parasites because it's pretty much fecal-oral contamination. as mentioned below, you can compost it, but it is both time-consuming and still risky (without running tests, you can't tell when the diseases/parasites have been eliminated and it will still contain any unhealthy contaminants the person was eliminating in their feces).

as for the dog poop, it is mostly the urine that kills the grass. i don't actually know about the manure quality of omnivores vs. carnivores, but i think it would probably have to do with the animal. cats hardly digest their food, so it would likely contain more good manure ingredients than a dog's. it also might be affected by the diets of individual animals (i.e. corn-fed vs grass diet cattle). it also might harm the yard if it sits on top instead of being buried where the worms can get it?

@gStein: Um, maybe that would have been funny but isn't that already what they're talking about?

I am not wasting my money on this book, I am going to make it myself at home and save $20 bucks.

@huadpe: [www.teach-nology.com]

@winstonthorne: this is why you use firefox addon craisgslist toolbox so you only are subjected to a thumbnail on the main page and aren't tempted to click through for the full trauma

@cmdrsass: i've actually read some excerpts from that book [on cooltools [www.kk.org] ] and they address that worry pretty thoroughly from what i saw

@hurstsogood, for me, the real appeal of composting toilets is to safely remove toxins, and keep fresh water supplies safe. NOT creating fertilizer (though Jenkins has a garden that he fertilizes completely using his family's waste).

@korybing I wonder if vegan/vegetarian poo is less toxic for not being at the top of the pyramid.

This kind of waste treatment is especially valuable for countries that have widely spread rural populations, where central sewer systems, electricity, and water treatment centers don't make as much sense.

@fjordtjie:

Solar toilets compost faster. You can speed up the composting process by using a greenhouse effect. The finished project is supposed to be odor free, if done right (I haven't seen one of these firsthand yet).

[www.duntonfarms.com]

@fjordtjie: my understanding is that the people who are into this compost it, then use it strictly on non-edible crops. These crops are in turn composted and used in food production, if at all. I know the sweetest raspberries always grew over the leech field.

Who needs this when they already have
[www.amazon.com]
?

I learned how to shit in the woods almost 20 years ago!

Then again, I'm pretty far from any woods...

260 pages? seriously?

@lockdog: the leech field is actualy just pee & water, so it adds alot of nitrogen. my landscaper notes that dog pee in grass will burn it, but the new grass will grow in bright green & healthy.

one good thing to come out of China is that they have a word for this material. It's called Night Soil.
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