Guest guest Posted February 3, 2007 Report Share Posted February 3, 2007 > > > > 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. > > > 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. > > Passing stool and urine raw in the field is one thing, letting it compost > is another thing entirely. It is recommended in The Humanure Handbook that > when composting humanure, the composting process takes place over a period > of about a year before the manure is used on crops. Better to refer vedic scriptures than other manual > Through contact with > the earth, the humanure is purified and becomes virtually non-different > from the earth beneath it, but full of the essential elements conducive to > plant growth. This one-year composting period is recommended for the stool > of (human) meat-eaters, which may contain dangerous parasites, etc. For > vegetarians, the composting period may be less, though I don't know for > certain. > > > > 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. > > All dung must be composted, even cow dung. Using cow dung straight > releases too much nitrogen and will burn plants. Properly composted manure > is safe to use. > > > 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. > > Conceivably cow manure takes less time to compost, and is already pure, > unlike horse, goat, chicken, or human manure. Besides, by using all > products of the cow and bull, we understand their value and refrain from > killing them. It may also be true that cow manure is in the mode of > goodness and the other types are not, but long composting may be > sufficient to purify any manure from a vegetarian animal. [bat guano > (dung) is supposed to be a superior fertilizer, but do we want to collect > bat stool?] > > We don't need to use other manures if cow manure is available, but in the > absence of cow manure, we should not shun the intelligent and proper use > of other manures. There are plenty of resources available regarding the > proper use of different manures, which is better than guessing at what to > do, but we know we won't go wrong with (properly composted) cow manure. > > ys,tpd > > -------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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