Okay, coming from a biochemistry major, it drives me nutso when people claim a fruit or vegetable is organic. ITS ALL ORGANIC. Everyone is using that word wrong wrong wrong - they're using organic synonymously with how its grown, which is not the same.
Having grown up in the Southern USA on a farm, organic should mean it's an heirloom plant that you never used fertilizer or pesticides on. My Aunt has plants that are both cuttings and seed born that have never had either of these. Her tomatoes I wouldn't call organic because she uses cow feces for fertilizer. Pretty sure most cows have eaten some non-organic material. But her peach and fig trees are pretty much organic.
Which is what I said; people are referring to something being organic because of how its grown, which is not correct.
Also, by working with horses, many farm animals do eat inorganic material (salt blocks, for example), but I don't see how discussing a cows diet correlates to a fruit/vegetable being called organic?
Being a non biochemistry major I simply use the dictionary.
Organic;
: grown or made without the use of artificial chemicals
: not using artificial chemicals
: of, relating to, or obtained from living things.
Sorry, Maezilla, but I'm afraid the English language develops and changes whether we want it to or not. For what it's worth, though, I'm with you. Every time I hear someone say something about eating 'organic' I want to suggest a lump of graphite. I wish they could use another word for 'grown/produced with no nasty stuff' but, alas, 'tis the fate of a living language to change like this.
Also, by working with horses, many farm animals do eat inorganic material (salt blocks, for example), but I don't see how discussing a cows diet correlates to a fruit/vegetable being called organic?
Organic;
: grown or made without the use of artificial chemicals
: not using artificial chemicals
: of, relating to, or obtained from living things.