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> There’s a limit to how much food waste fertilizer can actually be used once upon a time we fed food waste to animals to "recycle" the caloric content. Think
by maerF0x0 8y ago
> There’s a limit to how much food waste fertilizer can actually be used
once upon a time we fed food waste to animals to "recycle" the caloric content. Think table scraps(but not meat) going to pigs or chickens.
Would be interesting if we close the loop on this household content
Edit: Added note that I meant "vegan" scraps.
- keypress 8y agoStopped in the UK due to BSE, and not being able to audit ingredients. I wonder if cockcroach protein powder would bypass brain wasting disease and other nasties.
- spiderfarmer 8y agoBlack flies and worms are currently tested in The Netherlands. It’s 10 times more expensive vs other protein sources, mostly byproducts from human food production. Dutch source: http://edepot.wur.nl/362233 http://edepot.wur.nl/362233
- benj111 8y agoI believe in China it was common to site toilets over pig stys. Some loop closing isn't a very good idea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_toilet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_toilet
- linuxftw 8y agoGross. Much of the 'compost' you receive at big-box stores is treated human waste: https://www.epa.gov/biosolids/frequent-questions-about-biosolids https://www.epa.gov/biosolids/frequent-questions-about-bioso... Not much goes to waste in the USA on an industrial scale.
- vonmoltke 8y ago> Much of the 'compost' you receive at big-box stores is treated human waste: https://www.epa.gov/biosolids/frequent-questions-about-biosolids https://www.epa.gov/biosolids/frequent-questions-about-bioso... I don't see anything on that page to support this specific claim.
- mythrwy 8y agoNot "most", but there is milorganite. https://www.milorganite.com/using-milorganite/what-is-milorganite https://www.milorganite.com/using-milorganite/what-is-milorg...
- hanniabu 8y ago> So Milorganite is actually a bag of dried microbes! great marketing
- hopler 8y agoThe page says "Biosolids are treated sewage sludge." Sewage sludge is feces
- thrwwy412947 8y agoGross? Most vegetation sits in shit all day. Shit has been and still is central to the human diet.
- webignition 8y agoAbout 20 years ago I stayed for two weeks on a rural rice farm in Goa. The toilets fed directly into the pig sty. Very directly down a short chute add though a hole. An eager pig snout poked through the hole could make contact. Never before nor never again have I been so startled.
- swombat 8y agoBut... why... Pigs don’t eat human faeces...
- webignition 8y agoI have seen first hand that they do, not that I wish I hadn't.
- avip 8y agoPigs eat everything, including humans.
- ohiovr 8y agoPigs even eat pork. There is currently a problem with swine fever infected pork being reintroduced as feed in places like china. It is one of several vectors for the lethal (to pigs) disease.
- benj111 8y agoWell to be fair, if you were served some nameless meat, would you be confident in your ability to identify human and/ or not like the taste of it? Chickens will eat egg shells, and it's apparently a good source of minerals for them. You do have to scrunch them up, or else, from what I understand, they start associating egg shells with food, and start pecking their own eggs.
- all2 8y agoIts also good to bake them for a bit. It helps with the 'scrunching' and nutrient availability (so I've been told).
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- nradov 8y agoYes my uncle used to feed almost all food waste to his pigs. Then we ate the pigs. Unfortunately suburban Silicon Valley residents don't appreciate backyard pigs.
- aaronblohowiak 8y agoChicken will eat a lot of table scraps and are backyard friendly in many places
- tomjen3 8y agoChickens will eat almost anything you throw at them.
- aitchnyu 8y agoIs feeding meat to chickens and pigs a bad idea? I get that brain matter could cause prion diseases in cows.