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So the more you eat the bigger the 'doggie' bags .

  • Bottom line: the human body is a wondrous machine, with complex systems designed to extract nutrients from food and, during metabolism, excrete the waste products in the form of both liquids (urine) and solids (feces). The body is not 100% efficient, however (no machine is), so there could be some residual nutrition left in the waste.
  • Whatever small amount of nutrition that remains, which can have utility in some cases—-a likely explanation why certain species do eat their poop, like dogs; why poop from some species provides nutrients for others; etc—-it's not a terribly efficient way of obtaining energy and nutrition for humans. Your body has excreted this waste, and reconsuming it is literally a waste of energy and, further, could be harmful; there's a reason your body is excreting this waste, after all, and no reason to further tax your excretory and digestive systems with remetabolizing it.
  • There is likely some innate biological proclivities at play here that would lead a human to want to consume his/her waste, likely going back to days of hunting and gathering when food was scarce. But that is no longer the case in many places (like the US setting), thus there are certainly healthier, safer, and tastier ways of obtaining nutrition for our bodies in the 21st century.
  • Assuming you are a healthy person, eating your own poop would probably not harm you. Eating someone else's poop could make you sick if they were unhealthy, but eating poop from the right person could cure your diarrheal disease.
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Edit: So If they can make the food look like poop ... are they making the poop taste like food? I would like to see the ingredient list before I ate anything there!
 
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monk said:
So the more you eat the bigger the 'doggie' bags .

  • Bottom line: the human body is a wondrous machine, with complex systems designed to extract nutrients from food and, during metabolism, excrete the waste products in the form of both liquids (urine) and solids (feces). The body is not 100% efficient, however (no machine is), so there could be some residual nutrition left in the waste.
  • Whatever small amount of nutrition that remains, which can have utility in some cases—-a likely explanation why certain species do eat their poop, like dogs; why poop from some species provides nutrients for others; etc—-it's not a terribly efficient way of obtaining energy and nutrition for humans. Your body has excreted this waste, and reconsuming it is literally a waste of energy and, further, could be harmful; there's a reason your body is excreting this waste, after all, and no reason to further tax your excretory and digestive systems with remetabolizing it.
  • There is likely some innate biological proclivities at play here that would lead a human to want to consume his/her waste, likely going back to days of hunting and gathering when food was scarce. But that is no longer the case in many places (like the US setting), thus there are certainly healthier, safer, and tastier ways of obtaining nutrition for our bodies in the 21st century.
  • Assuming you are a healthy person, eating your own poop would probably not harm you. Eating someone else's poop could make you sick if they were unhealthy, but eating poop from the right person could cure your diarrheal disease.
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Instinctively, I'd say poop was not meant to be eaten. Things that smell bad (don't say it...everyones' does)are meant to deter from doing so. But, whatever floats your...:rolleyes::sick:
 
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Find the idea of growing tomatoes with human excrement repulsive? It’s a common response, one that Washington State University soil scientist Craig Cooger finds strange. “We’re not as grossed out by animal manure as we are by human poop,” he explains.
  • Here’s the thing about poop: everybody does it, which means that there’s a lot of it lying around waiting to be dealt with. Before the Clean Water Act of 1972 (and the outlawing of open-ocean dumping in 1988), raw sewage simply ran untreated into our oceans, streams and rivers. Once we figured out that this was a grievous insult to public health and the environment, we decided to start pumping our waste into treatment facilities—which cleaned up our water, but left us with the question of what to do with the nearly 8 million tons of poop we produce each year.
  • Humans have been repurposing their feces for thousands of years—some more safely than others. Often known by its euphemistic name “night soil,” the most famous example of raw human waste application might be China, where human excrement was used for centuries in an attempt to close the nutrient cycle in their fields, something that agricultural scientist F.H. King cited in the early 20th century as the reason behind China’s seemingly perennial fertility.
Source: The Stink About Human Poop As Fertilizer - Modern Farmer
  • It may be hard for some of us to stomach, but much of the food grown in developing-world cities is irrigated with waste water. According to the International Water Management Institute, the reason is very simple—water from sewage systems is a low-cost, nutrient-rich source of irrigation for the urban poor. As a result, worldwide, 3.5 to 4.5 million hectares of land are irrigated with poop and pee. And while this sort of “waste” water can contain a whole range of pathogens, farmers can learn to use it safely. In fact, a Finnish study released earlier this week found that using human urine for irrigation can slightly increase plant growth (they used cabbages) and does not affect the nutritional value of the crop. In other words, urine can replace costly store-bought fertilizers and produce nutritious, organically grown food.
  • Although farmers have used human waste as fertilizer for centuries, cities and governments have more recently looked down on the practice. But in countries like Ghana, officials do not have the money or infrastructure to provide alternatives. In Accra, for example, 200,000 people a day eat salad from land irrigated with urine and human manure. But while this helps provide these folks a diversified diet, it also gives a sense of how many people may be at risk from polluted water. Educating farmers on how to grow, wash, and prepare urban food safely and educating policymakers about the agricultural and economic benefits of human waste will help ensure that millions of urban dwellers don’t go hungry.
Source: Real organic agriculture: Using human waste as fertilizer | Worldwatch Institute
 
Kimmio said:
Instinctively, I'd say poop was not meant to be eaten. Things that smell bad (don't say it...everyones' does)are meant to deter from doing so. But, whatever floats your...:rolleyes::sick:
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Me thinks you are confusing instinct with brainwashing.
 
Enough of this nonsense ... outside I go to tend to my raspberry bushes ... which by the way are flourishing in a patch next to our outhouse - where I deposit ashes from our fire pit to keep the 'smell' tolerable for our guests.
 
monk said:
  • Assuming you are a healthy person, eating your own poop would probably not harm you. Eating someone else's poop could make you sick if they were unhealthy, but eating poop from the right person could cure your diarrheal disease.
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I get the impression that you met this as a joke but when Seelerman's brother was experiencing severe diarrhea in the hospital, the doctor approached Seelerman to ask if he would be willing to have some of his stool (poop) transferred to his brother's gut. Unfortunately his brother died before this could happen. Until then I was only vaguely aware that this was a recognized treatment. We never did find out how the transfer takes place.
 
Thanks for the Perspectacles
monk

(I wouldnt be surprised if someone, somewhere has tried poop food a la Poop Cafe or flavoured Oxygen)
 
Seeler said:
I get the impression that you met this as a joke but when Seelerman's brother was experiencing severe diarrhea in the hospital, the doctor approached Seelerman to ask if he would be willing to have some of his stool (poop) transferred to his brother's gut. Unfortunately his brother died before this could happen. Until then I was only vaguely aware that this was a recognized treatment. We never did find out how the transfer takes place.
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I did not mean it as a joke at all:

  • In fact, a recent article published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine showed that fecal transplants, where poop from one individual is infused into another individual's intestines, have performed better than regular antibiotics in treating certain bacterial infections that cause severe diarrhea.
 
There are some animals that must recycle there feces ... to keep their digestive systems going ... rabbits in particular ...

Then I almost died before a doctor recognized what was wrong and treated me with a set of pills ... that were basically an E.coli formulation that re-established proper colonization in my mental gut! Odd? perhaps depending on how you perceive it ...

Years ago a standard treatment for dysentery was to ingest some earth (under the sod) from a fallow field ... some connection to bacterial cultures from beasts in the pastoral area? Know chit ... we all need a bit !
 
Waterfall said:
or breathing.....
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Ever work in the chemical plant of a Kraft Pulp operation? Pretty rich in sulphur compounds ... mercaptains and hydrogen sulfides ... at a certain level the body becomes insensitive to it and then at higher levels still ... one becomes unconscious ...

It is amazing what the proper balances are in many compounds and elements ...
 
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