The definition of “organic” is plant or animal products that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, do not contain genetically modified organisms, and are not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or c…

The oil that goes into your engine is 75-80% original “organic” base stock. The other 20-25% is a concoction of many different chemicals to make the oil perform as intended. These additives could not be classified as “organic” by your defintion. So labelling any motor oil as organic is sort of a m…

Koosras: Okay–let’s assume for the moment that crude oil is organic. For that matter, so is one form of arsenic. For that matter, so is horse manure. For that matter, so is a decaying corpse. If you believe “organic” to automatically be a good thing–would you knowingly eat organic arsenic, or h…

Maybe crude is organic but gasoline is not. Gasoline is contrived from crude; it does not occur naturally. Just because something is made from organic compounds , does not make it organic. Technically, It has to occur naturally. Otherwise, everything would be organic. We mistakenly call some motor o…

In chemistry, if I remember correctly, the dividing line between organic and non-organic is whether the substance contains carbon. So in that sense, all crude is “organic.” Couldn’t resist. Scrabbler

That makes " plastics organic"…Couldn’t resist that either.

“Crude oil was formed many eons ago from small animals” Whoa, whoa, whoa there, Hoss! Where do you get that from? Has that process ever been reproduced in a laboratory? How did those critters get so far underground? In chemistry class you have to make those equation-like thingies with letters, …

The field of chemistry that deals with petrochemicals is “organic” chemistry. So when I see food labeled as ‘organic’, some part of me imagines it could be made from crude oil and the label wouldn’t be a misnomer. Of course all food is organic. If I ever see food labeled as inorganic, I think I’l…

organic |ôrˈganik| adjective 1 of, relating to, or derived from living matter : organic soils. • Chemistry of, relating to, or denoting compounds containing carbon (other than simple binary compounds and salts) and chiefly or ultimately of biological origin. Compare with inorganic . • (of food o…

Wow, my post is getting more attantion than I’d expected on Christmas Eve. VDCDriver asks the legitimate question of what my point is. I have several. My first point is that, in chemistry, the definition of “organic” is different from the way it’s used in the supermarkets. When I see “organic salt…

Agree; snake venom and all natural poisons are “organic”. The term is now so overused as to be virtually meaningless. With respect to food it used to mean free of pesticides, herbicides, no chemical fertilizers used or growth hormones in case of animals. And no preservatives of course. That means or…

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Barkydog December 26, 2011, 5:29am 16

Organic is stupid. Snake venom could be deemed organic, it does not mean it is good for you!

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