How devious to use a literal interpretation of the word organic to undermine
legitimate alternative systems of  farming which do not use harmful
chemicals that damage soil, pollute our water and lace our food with toxins.

Jack Eastman


Des Moines Register, March 21, 03, Letter-to-the-Editor:

Organic Quackery:

Consumers, don't be fooled. the issue over feed standards for so-called
"organic" livestock is one of marketing and profit, not of food quality.

The movement has succeeded in co-opting the term "organic" by defining it in
a very narrow, inaccurate way. "Organic" simply means pertaining to or
derived from life. This includes chemicals such as benzene, all manner of
petroleum products and food products of both conventional and
biotechnological processes.

In short, all food is organic. To be inorganic, a substance must be based on
or consists of non-biological material, such as silicon.

Using the deception, the organic movement has created a very profitable
market niche. This niche would disappear were it not for the more efficient,
economical, historically safe and increasingly sustainable modern
food-production methods the movement rails against in its propaganda.

Let me take my turn in redefining so-called "organic" food. It should be
labeled "pricey, over-marketed foodstuffs produced by inefficient,
labor-intensive means and marketed to the affluent and gullible."

Jeff Clothier
Altoona

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