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Ezekiel 4:15 NIV: He replied to me, “Look, I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that.”
https://www.foodforlife.com/product/breads/ezekiel-49-sprouted-whole-grain-bread
in america there's a brand of bread called ezekiel 4:9 which is the verse with the ingredients list. the company has a canned response that they use clean and sanitized stainless steel ovens and natural gas to bake their bread, not cow dung or human excrement, if you happen to have read any of the verses after 4:9 and grew concerned.
Surely there are dozens of other bible verses that referenced bread that also didn’t mention feces
for normal wheat bread, yes, but this bread is made from a mixture of wheat, barley, millet, spelt, lentils, and beans (although obviously this was long before the columbian exchange so it means fava or chickpeas, not black, red, pinto, etc.), basically whatever could be scrounged together during a siege.
ezekiel is being commanded to eat this bread as penance for and in solidarity with the people of jerusalem who are besieged by the babylonians. that's why he's supposed to cook it over feces, because the people in jerusalem don't have access to cooking fuels, either.
but i guess whoever founded the company just thought it sounded tasty and decided to ignore everything else.