What does organic mean in food?!
What does organic mean in food?
IF a mac & cheese label says "organic". does that mean it has non-amimal enzymes.
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'Organic' (at least in the US) is an almost meaningless term! For all practical purposes all it means is a higher profit margin since the 'standards' were set largely by mega-corp lobbyists and NOT by anyone that originally started using the term organic to mean locally grown without the use of synthesized chemicals. In addition when 'organic' items are imported. under current US codes the 'organic certification' is NOT done by anyone in the US but is done by the source country! That's an important consideration since most 'organic' items are now imported from China and 3rd world countries and locally produced 'organic' is less than 1% of the US market. For US grown 'organic' produce here's the EPA list of chemicals that can be applied and still be labeled 'organic pesticide free' (since these chemicals are bio-pesticides
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/biopestici...
You can go to the USDA.gov or FDA.gov websites to look up the actual regulations. Be warned that those websites are quite convoluted and designed to hide the real information! Having a fast internet connection helps with digging through dozens of pages to get the data. I have a SLOW connection or I'd dig the links up for you (they change often so my stored ones don't work anymore
The claims that 'organic' standard disallow hormone use with ''organic' are patently false. Under the standards you can't give an animal hormones without a veternarian prescribing them! That's an important loophole since it allows 'organic' ranchers to still provide hormones to their animals. Another misconception about the animal industry (both 'organic' and otherwise) is that it's no longer legal to feed animals feed that has other animals in it. What was prohibited was feeding animals their same type of animal! What happens now is they feed cows chicken, pork and sheep. The chickens get cow, pork and sheep etc. Sneaky huh? In any event, once animals are fully processed by a rendering plant you can add "hydrolyzed animal protein" to feed that could contain anything included euthanized dogs, cats ,horses, roadkill, whatever.
In the specific case of your mac & cheese (since it's a prepared food product) 'organic standards' mean that it doesn't even have to use entirely 'organic' ingredients! In any event the grain for the pasta could have been sprayed with any of the EPA approved bio-pesticides or it could have been imported and then you've got no idea how it was produced. The milk could have come from cows that were given hormones under vets orders and still raised in a factory farm type environment. Free range only means that animals have to have access to outdoors, NOT that they have to be outdoors! On a dairy owned by my family they met the standard by tearning down the covered walkway that led from the feeding barn to the milking shed
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Vegetarians do not eat fish. A fish eater is a Piscivore. Spread the correct word!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/piscivo...
no it means all the ingreadiants dont have any chemicals in them. like fruit being spraied with bug spray.
Organicly grown foods use no pesticides and generaly are grown in smaller areas with more individual attention.
It means that you should be prepared to pay 50% more for it.
grown or made from stuff that was grown wihtout chemical fertilizer and bug sprays.
It usually means that the plants grown to make it weren't sprayed with pesticides. Some people have different definitions though.
what is with you and enzymes? jk.
it just means that it comes from the earth and is not spelled
K-R-A-P (like the kraft thing, that's SO not organic)
no, it means that the cows were given no drugs and fed nothing treated with chemicals. and the wheat used in the pasta is also chemical free..
It means it was grown naturally without any of the chemicals. With mac n cheese it means what they use to make the noodles,ie grain for flour had nothing put on it during growing.
organic means that the farm the animals were brought up/vegetables grew no artificial size enhancers etc were used and the food is pure
organic means that no chemicals were used in the production of whatever is in the sandwhich. read the entire label though and look for any disclaimers.
The simple answer SHOULD be that it is raised\grown with no additives\chemicals\etc. AKA all 'natural'. While I am admittedly not one who uses this as a primary factor in my purchasing decisions, I do tend to check for it. And that being said, I have found that the term 'organic' can at times be applied in a rather fast and loose fashion in order to make a product appealing as an advertising gimmick. In essence...let the buyer beware! Blessings...
Organic food is produced according to certain production standards. For crops, it means they were grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers, human waste, or sewage sludge, and that they were processed without ionizing radiation or food additives. For animals, it means they were reared without the routine use of antibiotics and without the use of growth hormones. In most countries, organic produce must not be genetically modified.
organic means
once living
so that could mean anything form a plant to a chicken. Don't trust those labels!
Its generally a marketing gimic used to draw people who have more money to spend. Its a big trend now. It could have some truth in it, but its mostly just to fool people into thinking that they are eating something healthy when in reality, they're just spending more money for something identical.
Go Organic, its good and it means it has less chemicals..