Yeah I read the Humanure Handbook a few weeks ago, drinking the kool aid hard now.
HA! I hear you. When i told my husband about Humanure a few years ago (trying to take our suburbs house off the grid) he just was shocked and completely disgusted. He put his foot down and said he'd rather go at work then have to think about cleaning out an adult size composting kitty litter box (as he calls it). lol! Some people just can't see the value in brown gold I guess.
Fecophobia rears its ugly head in a composting thread, of all places!
I agree with your husband. I prefer my shit to be out of sight/out of mind and as far away from me as possible.
There are many options other than shit in purified drinking water, pull a lever and dump the water into the nearest body of moving water via a pollution factory that adds poison to it. My family has used a composting toilet at the cottage for forever. There's no odour, operation is very convenient and sanitary, and when it's done, dirt comes out. AFAIK it's not an aerobic system, so you couldn't grow food in it, but you could put the end result on fruit trees or wherever.
The whole idea of shit as waste is an indication of a horribly destructive worldview. There is no such thing as waste unless we waste something.
