Feces is waste living organisms expel
from their colon as a result of metabolism (processing of food eaten). A
necessary body function.
Feces has many other names. Some of
them are stool, excrement, poop, droppings and scat. The common slang for feces
is shit.
Feces is made up of undigested food,
bacteria, mucus, fluid and dead cells.
I know talking about this matter is
not pleasant for many though it is an essential part of human life. Your very body
is a manufacturer of feces.
Once you eat you have got to release
the stuff. Some say as much as 50% of what you eat is released as feces. My
beef is how we release and dispose of feces. In many parts of the world
indiscriminate defecation is done. In my country for example, from the western
tip of the coast to its eastern tip on the Atlantic Ocean, open defecation is
done on the beaches. That manner of defecation is described as ‘free range’ by
varsity students.
The feces released onto the beaches
end up in the sea. In a television news, a fisherman at Chorkor or James Town (Accra, Ghana) interviewed in connection with
the issue said that sometimes they catch fish stained with feces. What they do
is to wash their catch clean of feces before selling them.
The feces make the sea unpleasant to
swim in, and contaminate living organism like the fish caught by the fishermen.
Feces has many good uses (including
medicinal uses), but it can also be dangerous if it is not properly handled. While it is a good source of food for some
living organism, bacteria in it can spread diseases.
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