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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I’d like to address the part about helping people. I can see you’re looking for solutions to a very big problem.
We have other options. [Restore land](https://www.tiktok.com/@justdiggit) so it can be used for agriculture. Support local communities over multinational corporations (eg stop sending missionaries to build things and hire locals instead). Give the UN more resources to step in during famines. Etc.
We should do all the things we can do *before we offer poor people human poop to eat.* It’d be pretty poor form for a rich country to tell a poor country, “We have a lot of food, but all we’re willing to share with you is poop.”
Hungry, poor, homeless, and sick people deserve to be treated with dignity. Some charities won’t take clothes with stains or holes. Some soup kitchens serve vegetarian meals, even though they could just tell everyone to eat meat. The question isn’t, “What’s the minimum people need to survive?” It’s, “What’s the best we can do for people?”
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