Organic, huh?

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

I've seen "Organic" salt.
that doesn't have Carbon, Hydrogen or Oxygen
- There is no such thing as organic salt........
Heresy!

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.

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.
- Love a definition that uses its own word
- Means "contains carbon" in any context other than food
- 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.
- 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.

I mean, I wouldn't want to eat inorganic food. What would that even be, pure salt?

- So it's a diet then.
- won't get any calories out of them
  Me, an intellectual: eats a chunk of uranium
- I ate lead paint chips when I was a kid.
  Delicious. But deadly.
McDonald’s?
- Chick FIL A
ITT: Non-Americans and people being facetious
Spam
- You can actually eat spammers, and I think doing so counts as community service

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.

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" 👀 )
- No, no, my food's not genetically modified. It's just been developed via artificial selection for thousands of years.
- ( 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
- 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.
X USDA Organic
✓ IUPAC Organic
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.
- Source?

Well it’s not made of organs…

Organish

Some of you need to find a local farmer and it shows.

I'm in nebraska. I can find all the corn you ever could want... Not much else. Got a bitchin' farmers market though.

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.

I'm sorry to tell you this but plants contain anorganic elements. It's less than 1% tho.
- That's why I avoid them
No kill I!

I thought being organic meant no pesticides

It means "organic" pesticides, which are older and more dangerous to the environment.
- How are older organic pesticides more dangerous to the environment??
  Neem oil for example is completely safe afaik.