What is the diffence between organic and non-organic?

Question

Sorry, i can't find another category to put this in. If ya know where to put it, can you tell me too?

Answer 1

Organic produce is grown without chemicals - no herbicides, pesticides or chemical fertilizers. The soil is enriched with compost. Genetically modified crops do not qualify. Organic meats are grown on organic pastures; if they are fed grain, it must also be organic. No antibiotics, no hormones - including milk from cows given bovine growth hormone (rBGH).

To be labeled "organic," food must be tested and the producer certified by a governing body. You cannot simply call yourself an organic producer. It's a legal definition.

EDIT: I have to respond to kikki. Actually, organic produce usually looks bigger and healthier than its conventional counterpart, because it has been grown in healthy, enriched soils rather than soil that has been depleted of micronutrients for generations. There are many ways to prevent insect attack other than spraying. But the final test is the taste test. Conventionally grown foods are tasteless, but most of us will never know that because we have no basis of comparison. Once you have tasted a crisp, locally grown organic apple, you will never want a supermarket apple again!

Answer 2

Food-wise, not much.

Organic technically means "living." This should mean that all your unprocessed foods are organic. But people now refer to fruits and veggies that haven't been sprayed with pestacides organic.

This is all BS if you ask me. Fruits and veggie aren't injected with them, they are just sprayed on top. This can easily be washed off with soap and water.

Also, meats that are dubbed "organic" simply mean that the animal they are taken from has not been given hormones 150 days before slaughtering, as opposed to the 90 days of regular, or "inorganic" meats. Another way to raise prices.

Don't waste your money, just wash your fruits and veggies with soap and water and you'll be fine. (You also won't have to worry about e-coli in your greens, since the soap will kill that.)

Answer 3

Naw, this is an excellent category to put this in. Organic is live, stuff that can deteriote over a period of time by rotting, spoiling, decaying [wood, leaves, fruit, vegetables, etc]. Non-organic is stuff like steel, metals, stuff that doesn't decay stays the same over time, well maybe not steel since it rusts.

Answer 4

orgainic food has not been sprayed with any chemicals, or been grown in any environment that has been altered with chemicals. This goes for animals too, as they are kept in that environment and not fed any foods that have been treated with chemicals, including things like pesticides.
Organic tends to be more expensive because there is a smaller yield at the end of it, because pests will have eaten them and nothing has made them grow any bigger.

Answer 5

Non-organic has pesticides and other unnatural stuff.organic only get water

Answer 6

organic is made/grown without pesticides or harmful chemicals or hormones

Answer 7

I would put this in health or food. or healthy food. haha
or·gan·ic /ɔrˈgænɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[awr-gan-ik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective 1. noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
2. characteristic of, pertaining to, or derived from living organisms: organic remains found in rocks.
3. of or pertaining to an organ or the organs of an animal, plant, or fungus.
4. of, pertaining to, or affecting living tissue: organic pathology.
5. Psychology. caused by neurochemical, neuroendocrinologic, structural, or other physical impairment or change: organic disorder.Compare functional (def. 5).
6. Philosophy. having an organization similar in its complexity to that of living things.
7. characterized by the systematic arrangement of parts; organized; systematic: elements fitting together into a unified, organic whole.
8. of or pertaining to the basic constitution or structure of a thing; constitutional; structural: The flaws in your writing are too organic to be easily remedied.
9. developing in a manner analogous to the natural growth and evolution characteristic of living organisms; arising as a natural outgrowth.
10. viewing or explaining something as having a growth and development analogous to that of living organisms: an organic theory of history.
11. pertaining to, involving, or grown with fertilizers or pesticides of animal or vegetable origin, as distinguished from manufactured chemicals: organic farming; organic fruits.
12. Law. of or pertaining to the constitutional or essential law or laws of organizing the government of a state.
13. Architecture. noting or pertaining to any work of architecture regarded as analogous to plant or animal forms in having a structure and a plan that fulfill perfectly the functional requirements for the building and that form in themselves an intellectually lucid, integrated whole.
14. Fine Arts. of or pertaining to the shapes or forms in a work of art that are of irregular contour and seem to resemble or suggest forms found in nature.
–noun 15. a substance, as a fertilizer or pesticide, of animal or vegetable origin.
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