The Meaning Of "Organic"

"Words matter. Imagine someone who only speaks English trying to communicate with someone who only speaks Mandarin Chinese. Imagine a physicist trying to discuss energy with a Therapeutic Touch practitioner who claims to be sensing and manipulating a mythical human energy field. For a meaningful discussion, both parties have to speak the same language and have to agree on the definition of the words they are using. Precision of language is essential, especially in science."

I have posted on the deception of "Organic" several times (link). Click on the link below for an article focused on the true definition of the word and how it is being misused for false, greedy purposes:

The Word "Organic" Has Been Hijacked

"Organic" Is Slick Marketing

Over the last several years, the type of food marketed under the "Organic" label has expanded from niche small outlets to a large presence within major supermarket chains. Is organic worth it?

Think organic food is better for you, animals, and the planet? Think again

 

Nutrition Activists Go After American Diabetes Association, CDC And Everyone Else

"We're not picking and choosing science and health positions based on donors or their marketing or lobbying agendas, inadvertently or not. If we mollified our statements based on that we wouldn't be the trusted consumer advocates we are (2) and we wouldn't get donations from the public. Some shills can be funded - U.S. Right To Know is 97 percent funded by organic food corporations who pay them to scaremonger genetically modified foods - but individuals won't give you money if they don't like your work and believe in your mission."

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Anti-GMO And Cyberbullying

"That is the milieu in which we find the current GMO 'debate,' which in actuality has devolved into a vicious, relentless assault by organic food activists against the biotechnology community. It doesn't matter if you are a professor, industry scientist, journalist, or private citizen; if you support biotechnology, anti-GMO activists will harass you using their keyboards as weapons of mass defamation."

Cyberbullying: The Strategy to Destroy Scientists

The Canaries In The Coal Mine Are Doing Well

"Amid the scary stories about how the nation's food supply is doomed because of commercial agriculture's use of GMOs and various supposedly deadly chemicals, there's a piece of good news. The littlest among us seem to be doing pretty well, as far as their nutrient intake goes. If our soils were so badly depleted as some organic proponents have claimed, we should be seeing lots of malnutrition among the smallest and most vulnerable in our population. But that's not what some investigators have discovered."

Littlest Consumers Doing Well, Nutrition-wise

Detoxify Naturally

"There is no basis, rational or spiritual, for claims that shade tree grown food, free range, kosher, organic or any other process will detoxify you better than any other food. However, the weight of evidence has conclusively shown that there is one super detoxification technique that really works: having functional kidneys."

NOSH - Natural, Organic, Safe And Healthy Lets You Detox Common Sense Out Of Your Life

Another Reason Not To Eat Organic Food

"Despite the mountain of evidence showing that organic food is basically a gigantic consumer fraud, what explains its increasing popularity? From a farmer’s perspective, he or she can sell the same crop for a higher price. And from the consumer’s perspective, the most likely explanation is the placebo effect."

Organic Farms Yield 20% Fewer Crops than Conventional Farms

Why Is Whole Foods Allowed To Act This Way?

"Whole Foods’ disingenuousness in communicating with customers is as bad as its deficient food preparation and storage. Central to the company’s inflated pricing are the misleading representations about its organic food offerings."

Whole Foods Goes From Defrauding Consumers To Endangering Them

How To Starve Africa

"Today, the European Green Party, with the support of countless environmentalist NGOs, proposed an initiative in the European Parliament to make Africa wait for at least another generation to be able to lift itself out of poverty."

Why do environmentalists hate Africa?

Anti-Science From "Whine" Country

Another example of the effects of liberal anti-science.

What's Killing The Bees?

"This is not the time for simplistic ideology, which is what the organic movement is. Organic farming is based on the appeal to nature fallacy, not on science or reason. It is a wasteful luxury, primarily indulged in by privileged Westerners, that we cannot afford."

Complex and ambiguous situations, like the fate of our pollinators, become a convenient Rorschach test for ideology.

Organic Pesticides

"There is no apriori reason to assume that chemical pesticides derived from natural sources are safer or better for the environment that synthetic ones."

Whatever works is good, but we should follow the evidence, not ideology.

3 Reasons Not To Buy Organic Food

1. Informed confidence that we are safe buying “conventional” foods
2. Recognizing that some of the best farming practices from an environmental perspective are not always allowed or practical under the organic rules
3. An ethical problem with the tactics that some organic advocates and marketers employ which seriously misrepresents their “conventional” competition

Why I Don't Buy Organic, And Why You Might Not Want To Either

One Problem That Will Need To Be Addressed

"The farming systems we are putting in place now will need to feed the 9-10 billion people that will inhabit our planet in 2050. This is a huge challenge."

The Nitrogen Problem

Organic Crops And Pesticides

Organic crops use carcinogenic pesticides.

The Clean Eating Delusion

"In practice 'clean eating' tends to be avoiding whatever food is the latest boogeyman in the pseudoscientific diet-advice industry. Today this often includes eating organic, avoiding GMOs, avoiding gluten, avoiding perceived 'chemicals,' eating 'natural' which can mean many things but often means avoiding processed foods and food additives, and sometimes eating raw foods."

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-clean-eating-delusion/