19 Replies to ““Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit””

  1. Hmmm? What can I say that I haven’t already said about the organic fraud. If you grow it yourself organically all fine and good.

  3. “Organic is the Latin word for grown in … ….
    Kate, you say that like it is a bad thing?
    Actually, it’s not the growing, it’s the failure to clean it properly before marketing it.
    I remember well into the 60’s, city people would look for farmer that had a sufficiently old manure pile, perhaps left over from cleaning out a barn or corral.
    Sending the kids out to collect eggs from underneath chickens in the chicken coop had risk of salmonella, but moms knew how wash and thoroughly cook them.
    The contamination in the case of the tea was as likely the “organic” third world standards of harvest and packaging.
    Lefty thinking is, if it’s 3rd world it’s morally superior to modernity.
    A bout of salmonella and one of Hep. A allows them to learn the true meaning of the word “pastoral” (3rd world) lifestyle.

  4. Larry….I would prefer to see them get botulism myself. WAY nastier, and gets the effing point across faster. Mind you,these are idjits who failed Grade 3 science, so the less of them, the better. Still. Gotta hand it to the crooks who suck these no-nothings into buying it by printing “organic” on the label. Goes with the old saying ( to paraphrase)…a sh1t for brains and their money are soon parted. BTW,,,sh1t is also organic!!!

  6. The same can be said about “Gluten-Free”, “GMO-free”, “Natural”, “Low-Fat”, and other product labels with dubious truth that marketing mavens slap on products to con the stupid people into buying them. Our consumerist society allows marketing to prey on the mentally deficient to con them into buying crap they don’t need with money they don’t have, to get so deep in debt they’ll pass the debt onto their kids.
    Larry is correct, it’s the processing of cheaply grown food by people on slave wages whose health, hygiene, and human rights standards are not even close to what most people take for granted in North America. If most suburban eloi actually saw the people who handle their food they would retch. Cheap food is contaminated, whether or not it’s ‘organic’ is immaterial.
    Every test and study on industrial food vs certified organic food shows significantly lower levels of harmful contaminants in organic food.
    It’s a matter of personal choice.
    Some people will buy the cheapest oil for their vehicle and run it as long as they can, while others will buy top quality oil and change it at recommended intervals.
    It all depends on what value you place on the vehicle… or your body.

  7. Gee honey, should we buy the regular lettuce today or the wildly overpriced stuff over here and roll the dice?

  8. It’s hard to talk about food being contaminated when people have to be told and constantly reminded to wash their damned hands and even how to wash them properly. Observe people who use public so-called “wash rooms” and how many sail right out without washing their hands.

  9. I’m not sure it’s all because it’s “organic” (which is a marketing ploy to prey on the ignorant to begin with) as much as just a sign of our decline.
    Work ethic, conscientiousness, responsibility are in short supply in employees. I don’t know about anyone else, but we have to attribute extra time for each job to be completed due to getting the correct parts from our suppliers, due to the incompetence and general don’t-give-a-s___- attitude of those sending them to us, if the parts themselves aren’t defective to begin with because the person in some foreign country who doesn’t use TP assembled it and also doesn’t give-a-S—.

  10. Liz. When I was a little boy, my momma taught me not to pee on my hands. I think that normal human genitals that you control may be possibly cleaner than normal human urinals and sinks in public restrooms. The less you touch in there, the better off you are. Don’t touch any money either. Haven’t you heard of filthy lucre?

  11. Nobody has ever convinced me that “organic” is any better than “scientific” “technological” food … Ever. As an aside, I find it stunning that all the Global Warmists who mock deniers as rejecting science … reject science themselves in the arena of food production. They seem to FAIL 7th grade chemistry in misunderstanding that chemicals are “natural” to the extent they power plant growth.
    Most Americans would be doing themselves a HUGE favor just to eat ANY vegetables … let alone “organic” vegetables. Get everyone over THAT hump … then, I’ll start “worrying” about “organic”
    BTW … Why doesn’t anyone ever appear to get sick from eating mushrooms which were traditionally grown in bat guano ? Yeah, I can imagine a few plausible answers … but it does suggest that there is a much nastier cause for all the current “organic” illness.

  12. ‘Every test and study on industrial food vs certified organic food shows significantly lower levels of harmful contaminants in organic food’
    And if you believe that, Kate’s little joke about the pig shit will be more or less lost on you.

  13. Kenji, one of my former company’s division was Dominion Mushroom. There are long cement platforms where the manure is piled in long rows. Even in winter the steam coming off it is amazing and its really hot from bacterial action. The rows are turned frequently by machines and left to cook until all that is left is a black, dry soil with no smell at all. This is used for the mushroom beds.

  14. Organic is mostly a tax on the rich, the chemo-phobic and the faith-based anti-industrial. Higher incidences of food-born disease is just a complimentary surtax.

  15. I wonder if these products labelled as organic are just that….or are some of them cheating? There has to be at least a few crooked people in Organicland. I’ve often wondered if that $32.00 whole chicken at the “farmers” market is really free range/organic or did the business owner just grab a soon to be expired bird from Superstore, wrap it in new plastic and slap on a cutesy home made label on it. Is that package of ground bison (at $24.00 for 1.25 lbs) really raised without hormones? IS it 100% bison or like a coke dealer looking to maximize his return, cutting it down with cheaper product?
    Organic fans are not unlike those who get a stiffy with the prospect of power rates doubling because your benevolent government is going to connect a bunch of windmills to the grid. Heavy on the touchy-feeley rhetoric, but short on the facts/science. Same with the anti-vaxers.

  16. @Eskimo
    Of course they cheat. Maybe not all of them, but many of them that want to stay in business do. Most of your organic standards require hours and hours of paperwork. Not something you have time to do if you are like, planting and harvesting and need to get a perishable crop to market.
    And while they allow certain chemicals that aren’t necessarily any ‘better” then the big ag ones, the yields are significantly lower because of the pests, no reliance on petroleum based fertilizer and amount of backbreaking work, for the ones that do follow them.
    {I live in an agricultural area and quite a few of our customers/relatives/neighbors are farmers.
    It’s amazing what people do because they think no one is looking.}
    and that “free range” thing? They free range inside of a building. The McChicken-houses around me are going up overnite, for 10,000 – 500,000 in each. They take up acres. Use millions of gallons of water a day.
    One neighbor tried to let his chickens out one day and every bird of prey within a 50 mi radius was perching on his fence posts. (lots of bald eagles around here). Never saw them out after that. They clean out once a year when they get new chickens (layers). meanwhile the buildup of manure and dead ones (from competition) accumulates as they pack it down.
    I did have one neighbor that tried the organic dairy farm thing. He was constantly throwing dead cows in our fencerows (because we weren’t using them or anything). Organic doesn’t allow antibiotics for treatment of mastitis and had the vet there constantly for false positive TB reactors. Because birds carry W. Nile Virus and crap in the feed and waterers) and the cows show false positive because of ingestion of it. He quit and moved out and a guy turned it to an “organic” produce farm.

  17. Exactly right. My dick is cleaner that the wet bacteria infested taps in a public restroom.
    Those wet taps are the perfect breeding ground for bacteria.
    And the door handles? Ever notice how 95% of public restroom doors open inward(fire code violation) and you have to pull instead of push them open?
    Those door handles have both the germs of the washed and the unwashed on them and if you did wash your hands Congratulations! you’ve just cross contaminated them again with some else’s ick.

  18. Did you wash your hands before you pulled richard out? If not then you might as well have wiped him on every door handle you touched.
    It’s easy to wash your hands and use the paper towel to turn off the taps, open the door handle, then toss it into the bin as you leave. I carry an extra paper towel in a jacket pocket to use if none are available.
    One doesn’t need be a germophobe, just use common sense.
    You are correct, washroom doors should open out.

  19. “Organic is mostly a tax on the rich” and stupid (read yuppie look at me idjits). Eskimo…..again (sigh) ALL food is organic. If it wasn’t, you would be dead. Google a hard science (yeah I know,hard to find) site for the meaning of organic.

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