Other than the obvious grossness of it, why can’t we just process human poop into Cliff Bars with additional nutrients and ship it as food aid to places that need it. And then help various 3rd world countries to set up their own poop processing facilities?
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The same reason you can’t reprocess a candy wrapper back into candy. You eat the candy and throw away the wrapper because it doesn’t have any of the sugar or the chocolate, that’s part of the candy’s “waste”. When you eat food, your body uses the nutrients it has and throws away the rest because it doesn’t have any of the proteins or vitamins, that’s part of the food’s waste. Everything in your poo is the part of food your body didn’t need to use, just like everything in the candy wrapper is the part of the candy that you don’t need to use. The candy wrapper is a part of the candy but it’s not the actual candy itself, your poo is part of the food but it’s not the actual food itself.
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