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Just feces?[edit]

The pigs just eat feces? Surely they must get more than that?

Can you actually live on feces? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.119.204.117 (talk) 04:31, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

They must eat other food too. Have added that to the lead. EvMsmile (talk) 13:09, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Are these still used anywhere?[edit]

Can anyone find documentation of this being used anywhere in the world today? The article currently makes no mention of contemporary practices. Reify-tech (talk) 14:53, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've never come across them (and I deal a lot with toilets in developing countries). But perhaps in some remote rural areas of China or Vietnam? Actually, I don't think the name "pig toilet" makes sense. That sounds like it's a toilet for pigs. So a Google search for "pig toilet" may not bring up much useful stuff. What we do have is anaerobic treatment biogas plants at farms which take the excreta of the farm animals plus the blackwater from the toilets. They call them "4 in 1 biogas systems", see e.g. here: http://www.susana.org/en/resources/library/details/1213 EvMsmile (talk) 02:43, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese Cowdung Patents[edit]

This is for cowdungs, although not human feces: https://patents.google.com/patent/CN102669442A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/CN104256181A/en — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.134.0 (talk) 08:55, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See as well this man actually puts it on his youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCejf_AAH2M&t=1628s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.134.0 (talk) 08:58, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sources[edit]

"Pigs are raised on night-soil in the toilet ; pigs are placed underneath toilet foot -steps to make them eat night-soil directly when discharged. In other words, the use of new sanitary toilets would mean having to give up low labour pig farming." - snippet view from 1985 Bulletin of the Population and Development Studies Center.

"Up to today [2011], pigsties and toilets in China are often the same thing." - Rose George, journalist and campaigner, in chapter 5 "China's Biogas Boom" in The Big Necessity: Adventures In The World Of Human Waste. Carbon Caryatid (talk) 23:44, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Implications for hygiene[edit]

Because this system creates a rather small closed feeding loop, one might assume this system could contribute to the spread of diseases. Is there any data regarding the safety of pig toilets? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.86.20.136 (talk) 01:21, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Health effects on pigs?[edit]

Somebody's gotta ask it, do the pigs (or the people who eat them) get sick from eating literal crap every day?

Benjideaula (talk) 05:02, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]