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The Guardian newspaper reports on a new initiative in the Danish musical epicentre of Roskilde to make festivalgoers aware of the intimate link between them and their beer: the festival organization coined a new word "beercycling" which means nothing more than recycling the valuable nitrates from music lovers' urine through a near-by barley field, and then transmogrifying said barley into golden mjød (actually pilsner beer in the current project).
According to the newspaper, the Roskilde festival (established æons ago in the hippy era) has a reputation for its ecological awareness.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday July 04 2015, @12:49AM
Human waste was probably a whole lot healthier as a fertilizer before we had large scale sewer systems to gathered poo from wide areas, mixed with industrial waste, and then tried to re-apply it to the land. You might succeed in infecting your own fields with something in your own poo, but chances are it wouldn't spread very far.
Given the drug situation back in the dark ages there was little risk of medical contamination either.
I wonder how long it was from defecation to fertilization? I wonder how many pathogens survived a few months of rot. I wonder how many survived being incorporated in a rice plant or a tomato, then cooked, and eaten.
People sleeping in the same barn as their animals probably had a pretty sturdy immune system.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2015, @02:03AM
You have never been to India, have you?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday July 04 2015, @08:52AM
It also was a lot healthier as fertilizer before people started to take artificially-produced medication, part of which ends up in the waste. Medication is usually good only for people having the corresponding illness.
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