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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

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Humanist_Activist

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Tue Sep 11, 2012, 07:24 AM Sep 2012

Anybody else get fucking annoyed by the "Organic" and "Natural" labels on foods? [View all]

For one, there is, with only one exception I'm aware of, no inorganic foods(salt is the exception, and don't eat too much of it!) So I find the labeling of things as organic to be annoying and amusing. I so much prefer my inorganic orange juice. How the fuck would that be made?

As far as the "natural" label, could anything be so arbitrary? What is an "unnatural" food? A food processed or modified by humans after harvesting? Isn't that what cooking does? And don't get me started on the raw foodies, those people are crazy. OK, how about modifying the food before harvest, i.e. GM food? Well shit, I guess we might as well throw in hybridization and selective breeding(artificial selection) in the mix, those have only been around for at least 5 thousand years or so, I'm sure they will kill us all!

Biochemical and DNA modifications, more direct, at least, are more recent, but frankly my only concern isn't about food safety but backasswards patent and other IP laws that haven't caught up to the technology.

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