Bullshit again. You're already backpedaling that it was human feces, and it is absolutely NOT practiced by a "significant number of people" as you previously indicated that human feces are used in cooking in India.
Patently false quote. No where in this thread did I say it was a "significant number of people." So stop right there you liar. But to further rub your nose in the shit...
Uhh.... because not only is it practiced by some rurals, it is actually becoming a business? Admittedly, the way they are doing it in the link below is not nearly as nasty.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/26/news/international/kahn_biogas.fortune/index.htm
Here's other links with regards to cow excrement for fuel in India.
http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/...romote-clean-cooking-in-developing-countries/
This one talks about about them using cow urine for bleach and acne treatment.
http://www.appropedia.org/Efficient_Cooking_Stove_fueled_by_Cow_Dung
http://www.turtlehill.org/india/india2/dung.html
I am not backpedaling I was giving an out because I didn't witness the type of feces they had tried to cook with. There is no cows running around neighborhoods here in San Antonio. They could have driven out to Hondo or some ranch like smaller town nearby San Antonio and picked up cow paddies for fuel. The only logical choice for the feces type used in the story I related in greater detail was of the human variety. If one rural India family was cooking with it without thought, I think it's a bit more wide spread than you are trying to cover up.
Really? What kinds of percentages are we talking about here Humbliepie? Once again, share with us the sample size and personal experience you are drawing from. Because from you've shared the sum total you have amounts to "having Indian friends", knowing a guy in your neighborhood whose relatives used shit-smelling fuel to cook with, and watching slumdog millionaire.
Do I look like an India anthropologist to you with demographics upon hand to produce on your command? Again, there is a LARGE segment of Indians here in San Antonio. Many are hired at USAA. Look it up. There are more here for other work as well. Anyhow, many, like yourself, that come from the bigger towns and rarely saw the rural side of India can't believe half of the stuff they've heard about from other Indians who HAVE lived there. No, I've not lived in India. My sources of info come from first hand accounts, news stories, documentaries, and other sources of info. I don't need to go to India to know what goes on there. Trying to ride that high horse is an intellectual fallacy there bud. But I'm not claiming to be the source of that info either.