Paul, my husband has this same answer whenever I bring anything 'organic' into the house. Well, language can change its mind and move on right from under you. Clearly, organic means what you're suggesting here, but it has also come to mean 'farming without fertilizers and pesticides.' I don't know (and don't particularly care) whether this happened gradually from one hand to another (or one mouth to another) or whether it was a successful ad campaign. The point is it did happen. Now, only a pedant would suggest that the word is somehow un-understandable in this new sense. What neoligism would you have coined? Having said that, I wonder how many of the 'organic' labels we can actually trust. Given that we pay a premium for 'organic,' one wonders how often one is taken for a ride.
Ursula taking it out on Paul instead of Ken(If you think 'organic' ticks him off you should see the fireworks when he accidentally purchases something 'light.'
Paul Stone wrote (in answer to AA):
Actually, the real reason to buy organic (it really is more nutritious, significantly even), is because it's far better for the earth. Organic farming doesn't pollute with pesticides or fertilizers that eventually wash into the Dead Zone.You see, this is precisely the nonsense talk that I cannot appreciate: "organic" farming? Imagine that... what are the rest of us heathens eating, metals? ionic solids? inorganic vegetables? That would be REALLY un-nutritious. Maybe we are already non-carbon based life and you just don't know about it. Once again, I'm not arguing with the process, I'm arguing about the stupid terminology.inorganically, p _________________ [insert pithy quote here] Paul Stone pas@xxxxxxxx Leamington, ON. Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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