Holy Shit

By Gene Logsdon, Brooke Budner (illustrator),

Book cover of Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind

Book description

In his insightful book, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure - our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource.

He begins by lamenting a modern society that not only throws away both animal and human manure, worth billions of dollars…


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1 author picked Holy Shit as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book sounds the alarm on an often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of modern agriculture: the cost and availability of fertilizer. Our soils have become severely depleted by overuse, but the artificial fertilizers that have kept them going for the last 70 years are running out.

This leaves animal "waste" as an option, but serious problems exist due to the modern system of confining and feeding animals in remote feeding pens. Mr. Logsdon's back-to-the-future solution seems like the only one available, but one wonders if it can be implemented quickly enough.

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