The Bird Poop That Changed The World
Bird poop was the gateway fertilizer that turned humanity onto the imported-chemical-based farming system of modern agriculture.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Guano: seabird (or bat) poop. From the indigenous Peruvian word “wanu”, meaning “manure that’s good for fertilizer"
- Manure: animal poop used as fertilizer (typically cow or pig poop)
- Fertilizer: a chemical-containing substance added to soil to provide nutrients to plants
- Nitrate mining: digging up the naturally occurring solid form of the element nitrogen (sodium nitrate)
- Phosphate mining: digging up the naturally occurring solid form of the element phosphorus
- Haber-Bosch process: the major industrial method to take nitrogen gas out of the air and convert it to ammonia
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