The revulsion at this is illogical, but that's because it's a natural response not based on really objective science.
Consider that every cell in your body is made of molecules which are not unique to you. Those molecules are made of atoms that were all created within a 7'000 year period at the beginning of the universe. The ones you are using to be you just spread to this point, clustered together, earth eventually got made, and pretty much since as it was cool enough, it got water, and life began very few other atoms have arrived at this point. Only so many of those molecules that the atoms made up, are organic material, or capable of becoming organic material, and that doesn't change location that much (on earth scale) unless the life it creates moves.
My point being, to bring this to a close, you were probably at some point poo (or at least your molecules were). Poo is a vital part of the nitrogen cycle (among others) and the bacteria that eat it equally as vital. Every bit of food you eat was at some point something else, and one of those things was almost definitely faeces. The skin on the fingers you are typing with could be a combination of proteins that were at some point, an oak tree, coprovores, Sir. Isaac Newton and a wasp.
It's how life works. Eating poo is repulsive because it's meant to be, but if we can directly benefit from the coprovores, theres no reason we shouldn't. We are already, after all, dependant of their existence for our survival.
I'm surprised, genuinely, how many of my educated friends (science nerds) still thought, even though they knew it was illogical, that when they were conceived their atoms were new. Even when studying it, you seem to cut yourself out of these life cycles.
Consider that every cell in your body is made of molecules which are not unique to you. Those molecules are made of atoms that were all created within a 7'000 year period at the beginning of the universe. The ones you are using to be you just spread to this point, clustered together, earth eventually got made, and pretty much since as it was cool enough, it got water, and life began very few other atoms have arrived at this point. Only so many of those molecules that the atoms made up, are organic material, or capable of becoming organic material, and that doesn't change location that much (on earth scale) unless the life it creates moves.
My point being, to bring this to a close, you were probably at some point poo (or at least your molecules were). Poo is a vital part of the nitrogen cycle (among others) and the bacteria that eat it equally as vital. Every bit of food you eat was at some point something else, and one of those things was almost definitely faeces. The skin on the fingers you are typing with could be a combination of proteins that were at some point, an oak tree, coprovores, Sir. Isaac Newton and a wasp.
It's how life works. Eating poo is repulsive because it's meant to be, but if we can directly benefit from the coprovores, theres no reason we shouldn't. We are already, after all, dependant of their existence for our survival.
I'm surprised, genuinely, how many of my educated friends (science nerds) still thought, even though they knew it was illogical, that when they were conceived their atoms were new. Even when studying it, you seem to cut yourself out of these life cycles.
