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I don't get why this grosses you out at all. We have the water cycle, the carbon cycle, etc. The planet is reusing materials all the time. Thus, some of your c
by ryan_j_naughton 7y ago
I don't get why this grosses you out at all.
We have the water cycle, the carbon cycle, etc. The planet is reusing materials all the time. Thus, some of your clean drinking water was someone's pee at some point before.
I don't see why that is gross at all. Drinking actual pee would be super gross. But drinking water that used to be pee is still just water now and that's all the matters.
- ineedasername 7y agoIntellectually it doesn't bother me. I think it grosses me out because modern society abstracts away nearly all aspects of food production from consumers. At the same time, there's a strong cultural aversion (at least in the West) to eating something like bugs and even more so for consuming human/animal waste. It's not technically bugs or waste anymore, but the association is still there, even if it's illogical.
- mirimir 7y agoI live in an intentional community that composts. And many of us are on the non-meat spectrum, so meat scraps are verboten in the compost. I've pointed out that soil is already loaded with remains of dead animals. But to no avail.
- ryan_j_naughton 7y agoBeing vegetarian or vegan doesn't mean not eating anything that contains molecules that previously were meat. It means not eating anything that is an animal product. By definition decomposers are converting the animal products into basical minerals and nutrients because THEY are eating the meat. Otherwise plant matter couldn't even be eaten because some of the carbon has been through the carbon cycle and was previously an animal.