Guano
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Sep 9, 2026
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Think of it as placing a small group of islands at the center of a national treasury and an international supply chain.
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Guano became an exceptionally important source of Peruvian government revenue during the boom.
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The guano system joined ocean ecology to agriculture through labor, shipping, chemistry, finance, and law.
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Its benefits depended on where nutrients accumulated, who controlled the deposits, who performed the extraction, and who could afford the cargo after it crossed the world.
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What looked like waste could command ships, contracts, legislation, state revenue, and military attention.
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Think of it as sending a lowly material through one of the longest and most dangerous shipping routes of its era.
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Guano traveled from islands off Peru to farms in Europe and North America aboard a global fleet.
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The guano system joined ocean ecology to agriculture through labor, shipping, chemistry, finance, and law.
TomHOST
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JohnHOST
... of bat guano is what I learned from that movie, which is actually, fun story, the country Chile, one of their major exports is phosphorus, 'cause they have a long coastline, and that's where you get...
JohnHOST
Guano's-
TomHOST
Guano
JohnHOST
... a major source of ph- of phosphorus.
TomHOST
Right.
Eric BaudourPANELIST
White goo.
Eric BaudourPANELIST
It looked like bird poop.
Eric BaudourPANELIST
It kind
Michael JonesHOST
of did.
Michael JonesHOST
Bird poop, crushed up Oreos, and Oreo minis.
Michael JonesHOST
It was like icing goo, crushed up Oreo, and just on a straight up Yeah, it was like very strange.
Michael JonesHOST
It was so bizarre.
Michael JonesHOST
Gracie, you're weird and I'm normal.
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They shot and they killed the suspect who we have learned worked at that restaurant.
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He's identified as 29-year-old John Hatton and Guano.
TanyaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
KCRA 3's Peyton Hedley joins us live from Lodi.
TanyaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So Peyton, what are you learning about the suspect today?