• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    4 hours ago

    usually its very unsanitory to shit in your crops, because you spread bacteria that is more harmful other people. its different from a cows dung feces over humans. E-coli being one of them, thats why they use manure of herbivorious animals over carnivores/omnivores, meat eaters have more potential to have parasites too, in the old ways. but they use synthetical manufactuered fertilizers to avoid the problems altogether.

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      1 hour ago

      What about herbivorous humans :P

      Yeah, despite the older traditions, it is nowadays not recommended to shit directly in the crop area. And turns out traditions of a time only work at that time and place, which might depend upon other, seemingly unrelated traditions.

      But it would still be better off under the soil than on a paved street.


      I guess I understand another reason for that in China. Because most of them ate some sort of meat, shitting in the fields might have ended up being a bad practice.
      But still, what’s up with shitting on the streets? Did they somehow just rely on the dogs to clean up the streets?