Why even have a toilet when it just ends up back in our food?

By definiton, a biosolid is solid organic matter that is retrieved from sludge tanks and is used for fertilizer. Think of it as recycling: throwing out plastic bottles to help make new ones. Except now, our feces is being recycled. It's being thrown on to food that is being grown so that we can eat it again. Are you okay with that?


PROS:
- Helps improves the development of crops.
- Affordable
- Rich in nutrients
- Better water quality
- Conserving landfill space

CONS:
- Very strong, unappetizing odor
- Filled with bacteria that could make you extremely ill
- Very unsanitary in general

In my opinion, I do not have a problem with biosolids. It's helping the environment, creating more jobs for others and are helping farmers with their jobs so that they do not have to spend as much money on fertilizer and can spend it on something else. I'm sure that the companies that do produce biosolids from waste sludge put in a lot of effort to removing the harmful bacteria that live in it. They make sure that it is only the rich nutrient that gets put in the fertilizer so that it can do its job. Besides, before biosolids existed, the main option for fertilizer was cow manure. Cows have this whole reputation about being fed a lot of chemicals so that they can grow bigger. They also eat a lot of weird, nasty things. We've been eating things that have been fertilized with cow manure for many years. I don't see the difference of it being human manure.



SOURCES:
http://www.biosolids.com/benefits.html
http://www.nwbiosolids.org/facts.htm
http://tdn.com/news/opinion/article_c286d348-8984-11e0-8b2c-001cc4c03286.html
http://www.agriculture.gov.sk.ca/Default.aspx?DN=3a8c4fbe-e1ed-48f3-ae85-9340b45d1a39


COMMENTS:
http://biosbi3u1.blogspot.com/2011/05/from-your-digestive-system-back-to-your.html?showComment=1307594755856#c2740771470491588406

http://jeffeffbioblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/poop-r-us.html?showComment=1307594969937#c6947716743124204429