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by ultimape 2354 days ago
Have you explored humaneur production? It strikes me that properly composting the waste ought to be enough to destroy any problematic bacteria. Would love to know what you ran into that may have prevented doing that. Been thinking about incorporating regenerative systems to build a food forest and trying to figure out safely handling biowaste. Even goose poop is potentially toxic.
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Yes you can properly compost human manure, to make it safe... But the process is more complicated and involves processes which cannot be skipped. I would rather do less work and be safer.

This means I simply don't use human manure on my agriculture crops, I use it in my forested areas.

That said, I do use urine in my grass/leaf compost, and recently I started charging biochar with human urine. Urine is much safer that feces.

There's not only problematic bacteria, there's parasites and pharmaceutical remnants.
Prions.

It's just a superstition but I wouldn't eat veggies grown directly in human manure (although the guy has done and hasn't gotten the sponge-brain: https://humanurehandbook.com/ )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion