[Greenbuilding] Composting cat shit

[YankeePerm at aol.com]

Actually, the diseases have had a long time to evolve to closely associated 
hosts, us.   This is also the case with dairy animals, but they don't put their 
assholes on the kitchen table or crap in juniors sandbox (or my carrot 
patch).   The longer we maintain domestic animals, the more opportunity their 
diseases have to expand their horizons and include us in their diets.   I like 
keeping many kinds of domestic animals--rabbits, chickens, a mean dog or two, 
pigs--always wanted a water buffalo.   We've got a pet gecko, too, but the risk of 
crossover diseases from a reptile are small.   Nevertheless, evolution is 
working against us, not for us.   You can have antibodies, and still die of the 
disease, by the way.   Microorganisms can evolve to include us in their diets a 
lot faster than we can evolve to resist them.   They have many more 
generations in a given interval.

DH

DH
In a message dated 2/23/09 9:23:30 PM, zeroenergy at cox.net writes:


> And how long have humans been keeping dogs and cats? 10,000 years plus 
> isn't
> it. The oldest recorded history shows them in our possession. The Egyptians
> had them and so did other "societies". Guess we've had a long time to
> puurrrfect them anti-bodies. 
> 





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