A Cuban government newspaper recently published an article outlining the alleged benefits of using human urine as an agricultural fertilizer, Cubanet reported Wednesday.
titled edition September 5The official newspaper of the government of the Cuban province of Cienfuegos recently shared an article suggesting that “Cubans fertilize crops using human urine,” Cubanet reported on May 11.
“As in other cases, different [Cuban] state media, September 5 republished an article by a foreign media outlet, in this case Agence France-Presse (AFP), published April 28 [an article titled] According to a Cuban news site, “Human urine is an unexpected but effective and less polluting fertilizer”.
“This should have been mentioned. September 5 does not refer to the original source (AFP) of the article, but [online news] portal hestionfrom Peru, which was repeated in its entirety two days later,” explains Cubanet.org.
The news that Havana was pushing Cuban farmers to use human urine as an alternative fertilizer in late April came almost exactly one month after state media in Cuba’s Pinar del Río province published an article in late April describing the alleged nutritional value of cockroaches. Milk.
The Facebook account of Radio Guamá, a local state radio station in the state of Pinar del Río, republished an article on Cubanet.org at the time on March 29 that highlighted the “nutritional value of cockroach milk”.
Cuba promotes “cockroach milk”. (Zania Studio/iStock/Getty Images Plus, Elena Medox/iStock/Getty Images Plus)
“… the experiment provides some details that you may find very interesting. We invite you to read scientific curiosity to the end, ”wrote Radio Guamá in the title of the reprinted article (original from the Spanish magazine Mercatrace) March 29.
An archived webpage from the Radio Guamá news site appears to indicate that the state broadcaster recommended its readers an article on cockroach milk in a separate but related article on March 28.
The Cuban Communist Party has previously urged its citizens, who suffer from food shortages due to party policies, to consume alternative food sources such as crocodiles, rats, ostrich eggs and banana skins.
Cuba is a poor country heavily indebted to the communist policies of Fidel Castro, who took control of the island nation in 1959 and ruled until 2008. The country’s ruling communist party has struggled for decades to give its citizens enough food. The entrenched food shortages in Cuba have worsened over the past five years due to the mismanagement of senior Communist Party leader Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel shake hands at a meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, October 29, 2019. Putin praised Cuba’s resilience in the face of US pressure. hosts Diaz-Canel to talk about expanding cooperation between former allies. (Alexander Nemenov/Photo at the Pool by AP)
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