• topinambour_rex
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    2 years ago

    It was an awesome fertilizer too. They brought them back to Europe, crushed them and turned them into powders, then used them in fields.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      That seems like a ton of extra work and disregard for the dead, just to replace something as simple as manure, which was available in great abundance.