It has been revealed this week that human fertiliser is being utilised by supermarkets to grow grains for their own brand cereals. The product, known as ’sudge’ is being used on at least 3,000 fields in the Midlands (Yahoo News)

The shocking thing is, the use of this product has been legal since 1998!

It is absolutely disgusting that human waste is being used to grow food aimed for consumption. I don’t buy the reasoning that it is ‘treated’ and  therefore safe or imbecilic attitude of ‘well what do you expect we should do with the large amounts waste we produce’ – NOT feed it back to us!

Don’t get me wrong, fertiliser is generally good for crops but waste from animals that usual provide us with fertiliser is a completely different to the waste that comes from Humans. Cows and horses’ diets are much purer, consisting of grass and hay, therefore their fertiliser will be purer. Humans, however, eat all kinds of crap, most noticeably other animals and man-made foods such as pasta, rice etc. When you throw in the idea of disease and the fact that all us of have worms, the thought is even more unacceptable.

However, this is a clear example of the ongoing issue that we do not know what happens to our food before we buy it. We don’t know how long its been rottening before being bleached and put on the shelves, or the conditions in which it as been prepared. Its a long standing issue that various people and organisations have tried to highlight, but the fact remains that we all have to eat and its easier for the public to ignore these facts than to try and do something about it. It doesn’t help that the free-range organic food costs more, and you still don’t truly know if it really is free-range or organic.

Unfortunately is comes down to the fact that we cannot trust anything we don’t grow ourselves, and in this day and age, how likely is that?