‘DISTURBING’ — Oklahoma Lawmaker Denounces Human Composting Legislation
The Oklahoma House of Representatives last week approved a bill to legalize human composting — a four-to-six-week process that breaks down a deceased body into fertilizer — according to State Rep. Jim Shaw who voted against the legislation.
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In an interview with The Todd Starnes Show, Shaw explained that human composting — which proponents call “natural organic reduction” — involves a deceased body placed into a stainless steel cylinder along with woodchips, straw, alfalfa, and other materials.
From there, a typical composting process occurs over several months, producing a cubic yard of soil, he said. Listen to his full interview here.
“Imagine sitting around the table during Sunday dinner and someone says the green beans taste just like grandma used to make,” Starnes opined. “That’s because they were literally made by what’s left of grandma.”
Shaw said the practice of human composting was introduced several years ago by politicians in Washington, DC.
“There are 14 states that allow this today, all either radically controlled by Democrats, or swing states that voted for Joe Biden, so this is not a conservative policy and it should be completely out of bounds for Oklahoma,” he told Starnes.
“Another issue that I ran on a couple of years ago in my campaign was to try to ban the use of biosolids or sewage sludge land applied to fertilizer, and how we’re talking about using human composing as fertilizer. And we’re going down the wrong path as a nation,” he added.
As noted by The Todd Starnes Show, states including Arizona, California, Nevada, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maine, Minnesota, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Oregon, and Washington, DC., currently allow this practice.
The Oklahoma House approved the bill in a bipartisan vote of 59-37. It now sits with the state’s Senate for further consideration.
Current law does not explicitly prohibit utilizing human bodies as fertilizer, nor does the proposed bill in Oklahoma, Shaw told Starnes. Additionally, nothing in statute or the proposed law requires labeling of crops that were grown from this type of soil, he added.
It’s a “disturbing slippery slope” to see this happen in our society, Shaw said.
“Do you really believe that human remains — or even my favorite subject human poop — are OK as compost or fertilizer?” Shaw asked while debating on the House floor, KOCO-TV reported.
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