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The word organic has some limited legitimacy as description for farming methods. The word I find most troubling is 'natural', often used in the same marketing.
by yaseer 5y ago
The word organic has some limited legitimacy as description for farming methods.
The word I find most troubling is 'natural', often used in the same marketing.
All agricultural produce is the product of domestication of a wild plant or animal by humans. There's nothing natural about a crop or animal subject to human breeding for millenia. Domestication produces crops and animals totally different to natural selection.
There's this implicit assumption 'natural' things are better than man-made things. In the context of agriculture, it's a false dichotomy.
- drunner 5y agoafaik in the US, 'natural' is an unregulated word in the world of food labeling/marketing