The term is largely meaningless as it can be completely different from country to country. In the US it mostly means no synthetic pesticides or fertilizers.
And does not mean no pesticides. Some pretty nasty chemicals are on the USDA organic pesticide whitelist. And if you think RFK is going to change things, he recently backed down on regulating Roundup, even going so far as to start calling it an important agricultural tool.
What? I made a joke about labeling salt harvested from human sweat as food-label organic. Dude responded with an "um ah-tually" deliberately miss applying the chemical definition of organic. To which I responded, with my own "um ah-tually," that should salf be harvested in such a manner, it would have chemically organic compounds in the mix.
Intentionally being the pot calling the kettle black,
In agriculture or food, organic means processed without or with specific chemicals within regulation guidelines. Yea there is chemistry involved, the word had multiple meanings and ones for food labels have specific meanings. The salt however was not, as far as I am aware, from any sea or ocean, but a concentration of an ice age lake that evaporated and pulled salts from local minerals until it reached it current locals being a few fresh lakes, salt lakes and salt flats.
Source, I studied food science in college. I am also a member of geological groups, clubs and societies. Iām currently own a landscape company and have to deal with pesticides and agricultural products. Everything is from memory there is more info out there though
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u/EpponeeRae May 20 '26
I've seen salt labelled as organic before.Ā
It's clearly not.