Re: would this fly in the US?

**M* S* <m*@gmail.com>**

Ah, your article reminds me of my idealistic youth...Back in the very early
70s, when I was teaching at a community center for low-income immigrants in
Quebec, one spring brought nothing but rain. Day after day of rain, leaching
every bit of nitrogen and potassium out of our thin and meager soil. Being a
farm kid, I knew the best remedy. So I set up a screen in the back of the
classroom and placed a bucket there. In my pigeon French and with the help
of various translators into the other languages in the class, I explained
the purpose of the bucket. No one was the least offended...this was an
immigrant population, and the scheme made sense to everyone there. We took
turns peeing, dutifully diluted the urine, and the class queued up to water
their plots with it.

The following class session, as instructed, students brought in their own
supplies. And within a few days, the plants perked up, despite the incessant
rain, and the class had learned an important remedy for such a spring.

The other teacher and I were feeling cheerfully competent about having
averted a potential disaster and saving the plants. But then, an old fellow
who obviously hadn't understood everything I thought I'd explained, brought
in several gallons of very watery, very stinky poop. I didn't notice what he
had until he poured it out on his plot. The minute he did, every mosquito in
Southern Quebec descended on us. The class fled in absolute horror, and I
learned a valuable lesson: teach the value of urine as a fertilizer ONLY to
people who share your language.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/8357134.stm
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