Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional Agriculture | Science Sushi, Scientific American Blog Network
I actually can't get past the misuse of the actual word "organic." It's one of many words that actually means something, and has come to mean "Smurfy" through persistent misuse.
In chemistry, and organic substance is one in which carbon is covalently bound to hydrogen. In geology and biology, it means that a substance or material came from a living thing.
Neither of these definitions means, or even implies, that these substances are good for you. (Socrates, meat hemlock) The deadliest poisons known are mostly organic, and naturally occurring.
Look, I'm all for being environmentally responsible. But when the word becomes meaningless, it's just another marketing gimmick.
You want to be environmentally responsible? Then advocate policies that will reduce the human birthrate worldwide to fewer than one child per woman on average. The biggest environmental insult facing the world's ecosystems is the simple fact that there are 1000 times too many human beings on the planet.
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