Korea - 'Battle for Manure'

[Bekeart]

In N. Korea, a 'Battle for Manure' Is Underway
Kim Jong Un wants citizens to meet poop quotas to help fertilize crop

In N. Korea, a 'Battle for Manure' Is Underway

I have comments that would get me a ding or two.

Bekeart

[Protocall_Design]

Maybe giving them some food would help the cause.

[ky wonder]

Hard to push out what you have not taken in

[Rustyt1953]

****** subject.

[shell627]

Sounds like a load of ****

[S42N8]

North Korea: where not yet everything has gone to

[Rudi]

I bet their army eats better than the average guy.

[pharmer]

That's almost some funny **** right there. Joe

[Onomea]

A godawful country if there ever was one.

[Mule Packer]

I feel bad for the Koreans...but not that bad.

Manure is America's renewable resource! Here at the ol' homestead, we figure each mule or horse produces approximately 40 pounds of manure per day. That adds up over the year.

Each fall, the kids and grandkids gather here for a weekend and work on what has come to be known as "manure crew." We clean out the big corrals and spread it on thick on the garden to be rained and snowed on all winter. In the spring, the minute the plow hits it, it breaks down into the very best topsoil around, producing a great garden every summer and fall. You gotta love it.

[Old 44 Guy]

Yes Packer, That's right. Most folks do the same or buy it. No Korea eats their animals so have to use the human kind. A ****** way of doing things I would say.

[swsig]

For Kim, this is just a passing fancy.

[wood714]

Originally Posted by Mule Packer

I feel bad for the Koreans...but not that bad.

Manure is America's renewable resource! Here at the ol' homestead, we figure each mule or horse produces approximately 40 pounds of manure per day. That adds up over the year.

Each fall, the kids and grandkids gather here for a weekend and work on what has come to be known as "manure crew." We clean out the big corrals and spread it on thick on the garden to be rained and snowed on all winter. In the spring, the minute the plow hits it, it breaks down into the very best topsoil around, producing a great garden every summer and fall. You gotta love it.

My grand dad had a team of mules. Used them as much as he did his tractor.

I shoveled out their stalls multitudes of times into the spreader.

My reward was getting to ride with him while he spread it.

I'd spend at least a month every summer on the farm. Only job I hated was cutting what he called iron weeds out of the cattle pastures.

[jeffrefrig]

This is why all these deadly diseases are created. I don't really believe human excrement is any good for fertilizer, unless all you eat is plants...like cows & horses.
(I'm not a scientist, but I played one as a child.)

[BC38]

Yeah, I always understood that growing crops in human excrement is a big no-no due to the risk of spreading diseases?

[jag312]

I tell people that my horse is a manure factory. The soil here in the Carson Valley is very poor, but the horse manure spread around and rototilled into the ground makes some mighty fine soil for growing fruits and vegetables.

[Greyman50]

Much of Asia culture is just that, they use human ——- for fertilizer and have for centuries. By chance you have ever read “ 30 Seconds over Tokyo” there is a very descriptive of one crewman’s landing after a bail out over china. Landed in a large pile of human —— used for fertilizer……..

[Bekeart]

Originally Posted by Old 44 Guy

Yes Packer, That's right. Most folks do the same or buy it. No Korea eats their animals so have to use the human kind. A ****** way of doing things I would say.

No Korea eats their animals - you overlooked the poop production until slaughter ...

[Greyman50]

There were NO Dogs or Cats outside US bases in Vietnam. Several times saw dead ones being carried down road toward home?

[CAJUNLAWYER]

YouTube

**** wagon pusher. Go through the streets, pushing the **** wagon all the while shouting "Bring out your ****! Bring out your ****!

[Rustyt1953]

^^^

Ruthie will like that video as she speaks semaphore, too.

[Kevin J.]

I served 3 1/2 years in South Korea in the late 70's. Very common occurrence in the small towns and rural areas for the "honey" wagons to be going house to house pumping out the septic systems and outhouses for agriculture fertilizer. Now these were just that wagons, often hand carts, not the type of septic pump trucks we are use to in the states. The summer rice fields did have a distinct aroma.

[Sistema1927]

I know that when I was in South Korea in the 1980's that they were still using human waste as fertilizer. It made eating on the economy a bit of challenge to say the least.

Side note, in any restaurant you never drank the water if it was clear, or if the ice was clear. However, if it had a brown tinge then it was probably safe to drink since the water had been boiled with barley added to give the color.

[ACORN]

My Father was in South Korea 1952-1954 during the war. One thing he said they were told was to never eat any of the local food. The rice paddys didn’t have Porta Potties so the worker just went where they were. Being internal parasites were common among the natives it was a natural pathway.

[jeffrefrig]

Originally Posted by BC38

Yeah, I always understood that growing crops in human excrement is a big no-no due to the risk of spreading diseases?

One of those diseases that's transmitted through human waste & not washing hands killed a friend of mine about 20 years ago. Chi Chi's restaurant had it in their food. Many people got sick, 3 or 4 died. John was #3. I can't remember what it is called, but you'd know it if I could remember. I believe it was in the green onions. People around here would remember. It shut Chi Chi's down everywhere. It was presumed to have already contaminated the onions before the restaurants got it, but that didn't help them. All these diseases & viruses come from 3rd world countries.
I've done a lot of commercial refrigeration, and the kitchens are filthy. The stuff that grows in ice makers would make you never eat ice again from a restaurant. If you drop a wrench on a tile floor & it goes clunk instead of clink you know it's bad.

[johngalt]

Exports from a certain zip code could probably fill their quota...