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Old 10-01-2003, 06:23 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Raw sewage in the garden... problem or blessing?

In article ,
Carol Russell wrote:
Why do you think that it is toxic? Human excrement isn't particularly
toxic, even if you do eat at MacDonalds.


But what if it gets into an open wound? I read that the Viet Cong used
human faeces as a very effective poison against the Americans.


Don't believe half of what you read! As with animal excrement,
getting it in an open wound can cause infection - but not all that
much more than earth and probably no more than industrial detergents.


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