Waste digesters take organic waste (and any substances, chemicals, or concoctions attached to that waste) and process it through composting (‘digestion’). Although a few describe these ingredients as ‘clean and green,’ that’s false: they’re mostly brown and entirely foul. Nor are these ingredients assured to be natural: they will inevitably include the unnatural, concocted chemicals and pollutants with which the natural ingredients will have come into contact.
Organic Ingredients.
Of the organic ingredients, digesters take in discarded and masticated food, the rotting carcasses of rendered animals, animal excrement, or even human excrement. Take it in they do, in large amounts: a commercial operation will require dozens of full truckloads of waste – perhaps fifty or more – each day. As the digester operates both day and night, these trucks will travel great distances at all hours to deposit their contents. The filth and dead animals of other places, far from the host city, will be carted to the digester at a continuous, relentless pace.
In this way, a waste digester reverses the tried-and-true method of waste disposal: instead of taking rotting food, flesh, and excrement to places far away from people’s homes, they bring that waste from faraway places near the very homes in communities with digesters.
A digester reverses all experience, and even the habits of animals: it’s natural to stay away from rotting substances and excrement. There’s never been, in all the history of the world, a successful culture that brought these substances closer to their homes. Not one.
In all history, there’s never been a culture that wished to be nearer to waste, or have their children closer to it. Not one.
The Organic Ingredients’ Other Ingredients.
Perhaps the strong of stomach and confused of mind are unconcerned about the excrement and rotting things that go into a digester. Perhaps. That’s not all that goes through a community’s streets, day and night, into a digester: it’s not only those rotting things, but each and every thing of which those rotting things may be contaminated.
If discarded food, then it’s also what went into it: pesticides, plant diseases, fertilizers, additives, dyes, with whatever unnatural genetic modifications that food underwent.
If partly-eaten, masticated food, then it’s also all those substances that went into the food during eating: whatever those consuming it took with the food, including any infections or viruses they may have had, or medicines they may have been given. Few would happily hold the half-chewed remains a burger found on the street, or comfortably carry the masticated patties in their pockets.
If excrement, that organic matter includes everything those animals ate or touched and then excreted: their medicines, their diseases whether bacterial or viral, and their meals of whatever unhealthy and chemically-enhanced kind.
Some of these other ingredients are themselves organic, but dangerous; others are inorganic and dangerous.
Not Simply Plants.
Though one will hear that digesters process food waste (with an emphasis on vegetables), that’s only part of what they consume. (There’s a way in which talking about food waste is a feint, a distraction from the full ingredients’ list in waste digestion. Even if food, the food itself is only part of the contents: it’s every unnatural thing in the food, of course.)
Despite rosy claims, the contractual agreements for waste digesters won’t specify the exclusive use of ‘really-clean vegetables’ or ‘perfectly fine but uneaten food.’ Of course not – the full truckloads are crammed with whatever can go into the digester, whether plants or animals or excrement.
In it all goes.
With so many truckloads, day and night, how would one verify their contents, anyway? Even if one could verify that only the certain things went in, one would have no way to know the contents’ contents, so to speak (of contaminants, etc.).
If these things are trucked into a town, and then into a digester, where do they go thereafter?
Tomorrow: What Comes Out of a Digester.
thank you for this.
the whole idea is disgusting and stupid.