1 yr. ago • 97%

Organic, huh?

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Copper sulphate is a listed "organic" fungicide despite not having any carbon atoms.

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- I've seen "Organic" salt.
  
  that doesn't have Carbon, Hydrogen or Oxygen
  
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  There is no such thing as organic salt........
  
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- Heresy!
  
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Even the most transgenic plant, grown in the techiest greenhouse ever cared for with the nastiest fertilizers and pesticides is organic in the most widespread and commonly used meaning of the word.

The air quotes are well deserved.

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- Wait, what's the most widespread and commonly used meaning of the word?
  
  Organic is a term certified by the USDA.
  
  To use "organic" on packaging, a product must contain at least 95% organically produced ingredients.
  
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  Love a definition that uses its own word
  
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  Means "contains carbon" in any context other than food
  
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  When not talking about US food it just means living matter. Basically anything you eat is organic by the traditional definition. The USDA organic definition is honestly a joke though. Most pesticide other than the new age shit is made out of plant directives. Doesn't make it safe to consume. The range of shit they can use and do, while still calling things organic is pretty laughable. You just have to avoid a few products that are widely used today. Nitrogen fertilizer and shit like roundup.
  
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  Meaning one could hypothetically spray a tomato with dioxins up to 5% of its body weight and it would still qualify as organic.
  
  And slip some cash over to the FDA when one of their interns asks too many questions.
  
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I mean, I wouldn't want to eat inorganic food. What would that even be, pure salt?

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- Many different salts, not just NaCl. As well as many metals and some acids. But they all are micronutrients, you won't get any calories out of them.
  
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  So it's a diet then.
  
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  won't get any calories out of them
  
  Me, an intellectual: eats a chunk of uranium
  
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  I ate lead paint chips when I was a kid.
  Delicious. But deadly.
  
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- McDonald’s?
  
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  Chick FIL A
  
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- Spam
  
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  You can actually eat spammers, and I think doing so counts as community service
  
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  Hey now, spam is made of pork! What cuts of pork we're talking about, well, that's a different question.
  
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- ITT: Non-Americans and people being facetious
  
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My definition of organic =contains carbon so = all food uless you are eating sand for some reason. Just another meaningless tag on US foods imo.

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- My own definition is: 30% upcharge for the same damned thing in a differently labeled package
  
  You're paying for the label
  
  ( looking at you too, "non-GMO" 👀 )
  
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  No, no, my food's not genetically modified. It's just been developed via artificial selection for thousands of years.
  
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  ( looking at you too, “non-GMO” 👀 )
  
  I'll let someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe carrots were never orange, as in every orange or yellow carrot you buy is GMO
  
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  Not quite the same. I couldn't get my normal soy milk recently and opted for a more expensive organic type from the same company. It tasted baaaaad. Like idk what the material difference is, but it sucked. The smell was really strong. I think I actually tossed a bunch of it out it was that difficult to drink. Now I just get light if the regular stuff is gone.
  
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- X USDA Organic
  
  ✓ IUPAC Organic
  
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- Do you consider a tomato a fruit as well? Organic has different meanings depending on the context, just like the culinary vs botanical version of fruits and vegetables.
  
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- You probably eat more sand then you realize. It was the filler in Taco Bell meat before they got called out for not having enough beef to call it beef.
  
  So they sourced cheaper beef, of course, and the taste went to shit.
  
  Also, I appreciate the label, even though it is a misnomer. I prefer not eating glyphosate.
  
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  Source?
  
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Well it’s not made of organs…

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- Organish
  
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More like "purchased at the cheap supermarket in the bad part of town and then brought to the farmer's market stand in the rich part of town and the price jacked up 3X".

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- The farmer's markets here are pretty legit, but I live in the midwest, so we have a ton of farms. I got some amazing goat cheese the other day at the farmer's market. The problem is the prices are ridiculous so we only go once in a while.
  
  We did discover the lady we get our dog treats from though.
  
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  Lifehacker tip: instead of buying dog treats by the ounce, just use another type of dog food as treats and buy it by the tens of pounds. If you're excited they're a real treat.
  
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- And then get a Mennonite to sell them. "Farm fresh mangos" in Halifax.
  
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I for one am happy to know that the food I purchase is strictly carbon-based and doesn't contain fillers made up from ground-up Horta carcasses or whatever.

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- I'm sorry to tell you this but plants contain anorganic elements. It's less than 1% tho.
  
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  Permanently Deleted
  
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  That's why I avoid them
  
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- No kill I!
  
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Some of you need to find a local farmer and it shows.

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- I'm in nebraska. I can find all the corn you ever could want... Not much else. Got a bitchin' farmers market though.
  
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  I get that, I’m in WI.
  
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More likely that everyone was ignoring him, but that don’t sound as cool on twitter

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- This dude - "Are these 'organic'?"
  
  Stall worker - "Yes. 3 dollars."
  
  This dude - "Really?"
  
  Stall worker - "Sir, do you want the pears or not?"
  
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- "then all the farmers clapped and this cute farmer girl asked me to come to the next barn dance with her"
  
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  City folks just don't get it.
  
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Permanently Deleted

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- Saves you whatever they marked up the price to for adding the "organic" label.
  
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I thought being organic meant no pesticides

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- It means "organic" pesticides, which are older and more dangerous to the environment.
  
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  How are older organic pesticides more dangerous to the environment??
  
  Neem oil for example is completely safe afaik.
  
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Hey now! Don't go rubbing organic salt in their wounds!

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- what kinda salt is organic ?
  
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  Yes
  
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I guess all the annoying shit from reddit is coming over here.

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