Composting toilets

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> What does devotees think of using composted human waste as manure?

> It is being pushed as a rich odorless manure for plants. Composting

> toilets are coming up in 1000's and the manure is used mainly for

> cultivation of vegetables,

This is my common sense understanding based on scriptural suggestions. As

far as I know the scriptures recommend usind of cow dung manure. This was

the practise in India for centuries. In fact it is wrong to pass stool and

urine in agricultural feilds. Yes these thing are not followed even in India

as of general degradation.

 

In India even goat dung and horse dung is used as fertilizer. It is said

that horse dung is 3 times more effective than cow dung and goat dung 5

times. So I was thinking why does scriptures not recommend these things. A

answer came to my mind and intelligience was that althought the physical

effect of these other dungs may be more but may be they might be increasing

Tamo guna and Rajo Guna. Nust like milk of cow and buffallow. One increases

goodness and other ignorance.

 

Similarly I think human or any other manure might be physically effective

but the fact that scriptures strongly recommend cow manure means there must

be some reason which we do not know till now.

> In urban cities like Kolkata, most of the fresh vegetables sold on the

> streets are cultivated using untreated sewerage.

one mistake doesn't justify another mistake.

 

Your Servant

Madan Gopal Das

> Any comments?

> YS

> shyam