[colecampbell666]

BloodEagle: The low amount of pesticides in people who are fed an organic diet is because organic diet means it's produced without pesticides (or depending on regulations, with very limited amounts of it). That has hardly anything to do with genetically engineered food.

Sorry, Herra Janos, wrong there. The only different chemicals. difference between organic and standard-produced food is that organic food used organic pesticides. They still use comparable amounts, just different chemicals.

[Janos]

Sorry, Herra Janos, wrong there. The only different chemicals. difference between organic and standard-produced food is that organic food used organic pesticides. They still use comparable amounts, just different chemicals.

wait what has this to do with me what

[colecampbell666]

BloodEagle: The low amount of pesticides in people who are fed an organic diet is because organic diet means it's produced without pesticides (or depending on regulations, with very limited amounts of it). That has hardly anything to do with genetically engineered food.

[Janos]

BloodEagle: The low amount of pesticides in people who are fed an organic diet is because organic diet means it's produced without pesticides (or depending on regulations, with very limited amounts of it). That has hardly anything to do with genetically engineered food.

that wasn't me though as simple "look at the username" reveals

[Mika]

Stupid question:

Speaking of the terms used here, what kind of food is not organic?

Mika

[colecampbell666]

Stupid question:

Speaking of the terms used here, what kind of food is not organic?

Mika

If it is grown using any chemicals that are synthetic, it's not organic.

[The E]

According to the people selling it, any foodstuffs made or produced without evil pesticides or scary genetics.
According to biologists and chemists.....Well, that's a different story.

Oh, and Mika? If you insist on signing each of your posts, why not use your signature for it?

[Ghostavo]

Stupid question:

Speaking of the terms used here, what kind of food is not organic?

Mika

Plant food obviously. 

[Bobboau]

If it is grown using any chemicals that are synthetic, it's not organic.

ok, then what do you mean by 'synthetic'.

[Liberator]

He probably means purified in a chemical plant.

[Janos]

Stupid question:

Speaking of the terms used here, what kind of food is not organic?

Mika

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_food#Legal_definition

[Bobboau]

well the only thing I can think of that would make something 'synthetic' by most greenies perspective is if it used some sort of distillation process, it seems that holding a vat at a given temperature so some chemicals evaporate while others do not is the source of all evil in the world, other than that nothing differentiates what happens in nature from what happens in a chemical plant.

[Mika]

I see my attempt to humor has failed.

Yeah, the only definition of organic that I knew is the definition by chemists meaning some goofy compound has coal in it. I found the mental picture of people eating heated rock with some slices of copper on it relatively hilarious.

Seems they have changed the definitions of words yet again. In my language, the term is 'naturally grown'.

Do I really need edit my signature to add my name there? It is supposed to make quoting of long posts easier, while signatures tend to be ignored.

Mika

[Ghostavo]

Yeah, the only definition of organic that I knew is the definition by chemists meaning some goofy compound has coal in it.

I think you mean carbon.

[Mika]

Along the lines of Savoean policy (Savo is a county in the Eastern Finland that has a peculiar dialect of Finnish)

"It could be that I did, or it could be that I didn't"

Imagine the international possiblities of this being the official political language.

Mika

[MP-Ryan]

"Organic" is a euphemism for expensive, resource-intensive, and politically-motivated means of cultivation that has little actual scientifically established difference in nutrition or composition from ordinary cultivation practices.

In short, it's crap designed to bleed extra money from the pocketbooks of suckers who fall for it.

While there are a few VERY LIMITED circumstances under which "organic" produce or meats may make a difference to the health of an individual, for the most part it's complete and utter bull****, as evidenced by the prices in your local supermarket.

[karajorma]

Speaking of the terms used here, what kind of food is not organic?

Salt.

[Snail]

NOOOOOOO!

[Herra Tohtori]

Salt.

Water, too, if you want to pick nits.

But then again it doesn't really have much nutritional (energy) value except being vital.

Now that I think of it, dietary minerals in general are not organic as such... calcium, iron, zinc, magnesium...