What do toilets have to do with healthy food?  Everything.

 

Agri-business became huge after it launched its "green revolution."  But it was a fantastic misnomer ... in reality, it was entirely a chemical revolution that replaced animal manure with chemical fertilizer.  So what ?  What's the big difference?  The difference is huge and will impact our health for a long time to come.

 

Chemical fertilizer only contains the three principal building blocks for organic matter: N,P,K or nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. The animal manure, however, also contains a large number of nutrients needed in smaller quantities to make food-plants nutritious and good tasting.  By not replacing those micro-nutrients, we gradually and sometimes quickly, impoverish the soils so they only produce bulk of grain, fruits and vegetable that look good, tastes nothing and are completely lacking of nutritious value. The same is sadly true for animals that graze on grass that is chemically fertilized if you wonder why beef also has lost it's taste.

 

Now huge corporations like Monsanto, have made food production and agriculture a completely chemical affair with pesticides, herbicides, and genetically modified seeds to make crops withstand increasingly higher levels of pesticides, herbicides or chemical fertilizers.   People have been slow to hold these companies accountable because of the immense amount of misinformation out paid for by giant agribusiness.

 

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While petro-agriculture has been labelled as the best solution to increasing plant yield.  However, both animal and human manure is vastly better as plant-nutrient replacement and there are ways to make human excrement into a perfectly safe fertilizer with no risk of spreading human pathogens.  If we used this superior fertilizer in agriculture we would also lower the pollution of rivers, lakes and estuaries since we would return these balanced plant nutrients to agriculture in a clean form rather than using huge quantities of fossil fuels to mine and fabricate chemical fertilizers. 

 

Once we flush our waste down into the sewer system it is mixed with toxic chemicals from hospitals and industry that commit heavy medals from all of society's waste stream, rendering it useless as an organic fertilizer.  So instead of being the great resource that it is, it has become a major toxic waste disposal problem.  CompostEra is working to recycle our bodily wastes back into agriculture in a holistic, ecological way.