Rose George Quotes
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?
George, Rose. The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters. Metropolitan Books, 2008.
The agency was supporting a program to recycle human feces which were treated in communities by sanitizing them and removing most of the water and packaging the dried sludge as a fertilizer for lawns, gardens, parks, and farms. The treated biosolids were marketed under many names such as ComPro, BioEdge, Notrohumus, Vital Cycle, etc. To promote the concept and overcome the bad image of human feces, the agency arranged to have it spread on all the lawns and gardens of the White House. The decided that “poo” and other descriptive nouns would not fit the desired image. See {635106} for their solution.
Manava Dharma Shastra. This text is a part of the Hindu Holy Texts. Hindus believe that Manu was a prophet whose text is revealed or inspired. This is one of the earlier prescriptions to maintain public health.
Rose George is a British journalist and author. She began writing in 1994, as an intern at The Nation magazine in New York City. Later, she became senior editor and writer at COLORS magazine, the bilingual "global magazine about local cultures" published in eighty countries and based first in Rome, then Paris, then Venice. In 1999, she moved to London and began a freelance career and has since written for the Independent on Sunday, Arena, the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Details, Bad Idea and others. Along the way, she has been war correspondent in Kosovo for Condé Nast Traveler magazine and was twice a guest at Saddam Hussein's birthday party. Until 2010, she was senior editor at large for Tank, a quarterly magazine of fashion, art, reportage, and culture based in London.
