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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Because it is easier to grow food from seeds than it is to reprocess poop into nutritious food. At least right now.
Even in developing countries it is easier to grow food than it is to figure out the science of turning poop into food. Anyone can grow seeds. A special factory that turns poop into food – which basically reverses digestion – is complicated. It needs clever scientists and engineers. It is easier to have farmers.
We produce more food than we eat as a species. Food shortages and famines are all produced by politics and conflict, not a lack of food.
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