Sentences with phrase «of human excrement»

Rosenthal's favourite is the fictitious report that the Californian artist Mike Kelley is to exhibit children's toys made out of human excrement.

Adapted from Robert Marshall's book In the Sewers of Lvov, Holland's technically impressive film offers a grueling account of the true story of a group of Jews who spent 14 months living in a rat - infested underground sewer, dark, damp, and redolent of human excrement.

The disease toll of this human excrement is astounding, killing more people worldwide than any other single cause.

Not exact matches

Not only is the embryo made into a thing, stripping it of all its human value; it is reduced to the negative condition of an excrement.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

Most of those afflicted live in developing countries, where there is not enough clean drinking water or effective sanitation systems to keep infected feces from contaminating food and water, and where human excrement is used to fertilize crops.

On the other hand, Ann Olga Koloski - Ostrow, the self - professed «Queen of Latrines» and a classical archaeologist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study, points out that it's difficult to know exactly how prevalent the use of human feces as fertilizer actually was during the Roman Empire: «We can just say that in some early farming texts, we know that they'd build the slave toilets over an area where the excrement could be collected and then spread over the crops, but that was just on isolated farms here and there.»

Human sewage largely consists of excrement from toilet - flushing; wastewater from bathing, laundry, and dishwashing; and animal and vegetable matter from food preparation that is disposed through an in - sink garbage disposal.

Most of those afflicted live in developing countries, where there is not enough clean drinking water or effective sanitation systems to keep infected feces from contaminating food and water, and where human excrement is used to fertilize crops.

Before the concept of waste disposal even came about, human excrement and food waste was allowed to fester in close vicinity to our homes and living spaces and was a breeding ground for disease of all kind.

So while working on the set of The X-Files guarding the honey wagons (while this can be interpreted as some sort of honey filled cart and while a search for this will give you a suction-esque type of machinery that literally sucks up human excrement but instead in reality is just a simple nice way of saying a trailer for actors and actresses) he was fired for following his dreams; writing out scripts in hopes that one day he would be able to put that film degree to good use.

Among them, according to government, 11,000 are engaged in the centuries - old practice of physically removing human excrement from «dry» -LSB-...]

Humans can be infected by cats via scratching or biting, or by coming in contact with fleas or flea dirt, which are small pellets of flea excrement.

Our best friends should not be relegated to lives of neglect, starvation, untreated illness and injury, mutilated feet from constant living on wire in quarters too small for movement, living in the stench of ammonia and eating their own excrement, drinking filthy water, encrusted with fleas and mange, making futile attempts to protect their dying infants from extreme weather (both hot and cold) and having those who live torn from them unweaned, sometimes being abandoned to die slowly in wire cages — all in order to provide a «cash crop» for irresponsible and unfeeling humans.

It is excreted in the feces of infected dogs, and if someone — human, dog, bird, etc. — steps in (or otherwise comes in contact with) the excrement, the possibility for contamination is great.

Sasamoto takes that shit bit to heart in her recent exhibition at SculptureCenter, Delicate Cycle, which likens human existence to the mound of excrement a dung beetle balls up and pushes around its entire life.

There is the grotesque in artworks such as Intestine, a long segment that obviously represents excrements, made by Kiki Smith, who also shows two wax figures depicted in self - satisfactory, masturbatory practices (Mother / Child), or in Paul McCarthy's sculpture of pigs with human faces, copulating in an orgy.

(human excrement + nuclear waste = hydrogen) The USA discharges Trillions of tons of sewage annually, sufficient quantity to sustain electrical generation requirements of the USA.

In a case of civic action that's gone way too far, student protesters at Berkeley living in trees for the last 18 months to protest the removal of an oak grove on campus to make way for athletic fields have begun throwing human excrement at arborists

«There are some examples of climbers who chopped off some ice to melt for water, only to find there was human excrement in it,» the 24 - year - old said.

It has endured every kind of human and dog excrement SEVERAL times and still looks great.