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[electricland]

Went grocery shopping last night, spent far more money than I expected (but I needed olive oil! and chocolate!). Bought organic whole-wheat bagels, sadly inferior to your real bagel -- they're basically bagel-shaped bread rolls, I'm going back to St-Viateur the next time I buy bagels -- and containing certified organic sea salt.

???

Honestly, it says that on the label. C'mon, guys. If there's anything out there more inorganic than sea salt, I'd like you to show it to me. I don't care how healthily it was produced. Sea salt is not and cannot be organic. In either sense of the word. Hmph.

Of course, I bought the bagels anyway, and look where it got me.

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[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

*rotflmao*

I told you about the time the guy came into the coffee shop and asked if we had organic coffee, right? And how I told him that technically, all our coffee was organic.

He didn't get the joke. Sad, really.

[pariah-ink.livejournal.com]

That's one of the things I've loved about the term "organically grown."

Has anybody ever tried growing potatoes in nothing but metals and salts and such? True inorganic growth?

[raithen.livejournal.com]

Whap to you all. Silly chemists etc getting all technical. :P.

BUT, for really good salt, try the Celtic Sea Salt. It tastes better than any salt I have ever had before.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

A*chem*

Organic Defined

Organic, according to Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, means the following (and more):

1. of, relating to, or derived from living organisms
2. relating to, yielding, dealing in, or involving the use of food produced with the use of feed or fertilizer of plant or animal origin without employment of chemically formulated fertilizers, growth stimulants, antibiotics, or pesticides
3. forming
   an integral element of a whole
4. having the characteristics of an organism

-- http://www.theorganicsource.com/why_organic.htm

Now, whether I want to trust a page that lists as its meta content "cycles in nature, asteroid impact, fountain of youth, optimal diet, Bermuda Triangle, rains of fish, Devil's Sea, Darwin, life in outer space, Earth's rotation, Organic Source, The Organic Source, TheOrganicSource.com, www.theorganicsource.com, Vital Vastness, The Vital Vastness, Living Cosmos, The Living Cosmos, Living Cosmos Society, The Living Cosmos Society, Living Universe, Living Universe Books, Living Universe Bookstore, Our Living Earth, Living Earth, Richard Pasichnyk, Recommended Site of The Vital Vastness" is a question for another day. But Webster's I trust.

[scapersuse.livejournal.com]

I think packagers of this stuff must think "organic" strictly means no pesticides. Heh.

Go get some *real* bagels. :)