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.
Organic, huh?
Submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Ddhuud@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Random_user@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
LukeMedia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Love a definition that uses its own word
HeckGazer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Means “contains carbon” in any context other than food
Astroturfed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Space_Jamke@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
Danatronic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, I wouldn’t want to eat inorganic food. What would that even be, pure salt?
Aux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Fosheze@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So it’s a diet then.
HeckGazer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
won’t get any calories out of them
Me, an intellectual: eats a chunk of uranium
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I ate lead paint chips when I was a kid.
Delicious. But deadly.
Rusticus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Spam
ignotum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can actually eat spammers, and I think doing so counts as community service
AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hey now, spam is made of pork! What cuts of pork we’re talking about, well, that’s a different question.
WindInTrees@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ITT: Non-Americans and people being facetious
TechLauren@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
solidgrue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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” 👀 )
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, no, my food’s not genetically modified. It’s just been developed via artificial selection for thousands of years.
nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 1 year ago
( 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
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
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.
meeeeetch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
X USDA Organic
✓ IUPAC Organic
ShadyGrove@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Hazdaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More like “purchased at the local cheap supermarket and then brought to the farmer’s market stand and the price jacked up 3X”.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
And then get a Mennonite to sell them. “Farm fresh mangos”
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well it’s not made of organs…
almar_quigley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Organish
Yabadabadoo@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
More likely that everyone was ignoring him, but that don’t sound as cool on twitter
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This dude - “Are these ‘organic’?”
Stall worker - “Yes. 3 dollars.”
This dude - “Really?”
Stall worker - “Sir, do you want the pears or not?”
Ertebolle@kbin.social 1 year ago
"then all the farmers clapped and this cute farmer girl asked me to come to the next barn dance with her"
Dr_Fetus_Jackson@kbin.social 1 year ago
City folks just don't get it.
Ertebolle@kbin.social 1 year ago
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.
Hank@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'm sorry to tell you this but plants contain anorganic elements. It's less than 1% tho.
Streetdog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s unacceptable.
Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s why I avoid them
DharmaCurious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No kill I!
cheeseblintzes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Some of you need to find a local farmer and it shows.
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I’m in nebraska. I can find all the corn you ever could want… Not much else. Got a bitchin’ farmers market though.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I thought being organic meant no pesticides
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It means “organic” pesticides, which are older and more dangerous to the environment.
HalfJack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How are older organic pesticides more dangerous to the environment??
Neem oil for example is completely safe afaik.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hey now! Don’t go rubbing organic salt in their wounds!
darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
what kinda salt is organic ?
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes
dx1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I guess all the annoying shit from reddit is coming over here.
uphillbothways@kbin.social 1 year ago
Copper sulphate is a listed "organic" fungicide despite not having any carbon atoms.
Siethron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve seen “Organic” salt.
that doesn’t have Carbon, Hydrogen or Oxygen
pakrat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There is no such thing as organic salt…
Gork@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Heresy!
Hupf@feddit.de 1 year ago
sounds like heresy to me