Posted: Dec 13, 2011 2:07 am
I would regard this as a temporary expedient. Scientists still have an incomplete knowledge of what bacteria are useful, and so eating shit would be to give the full dose.
The downside is that human shit also contains lots of pathogens, so this could make you quite sick - above and beyond the revulsion, that is! Our repugnance for human turds has good cause.
A much better approach, once science has a bit more complete knowledge, is to culture the necessary bacteria, and put them into a form for ingestion (like that yoghurt), which would give the helpful little beggars while excluding the cholera and its mates.
The downside is that human shit also contains lots of pathogens, so this could make you quite sick - above and beyond the revulsion, that is! Our repugnance for human turds has good cause.
A much better approach, once science has a bit more complete knowledge, is to culture the necessary bacteria, and put them into a form for ingestion (like that yoghurt), which would give the helpful little beggars while excluding the cholera and its mates.