It irritates me that there can be so many different takes on simple words, that manufacturers, and retailers can play with the definition to suit themselves. There shouldn't be any need for organizations to verify that products are organic!
Natural. I consider something natural only if the product that is being sold can be found that way in the environment, and that the means to make that product exist in the world around us, without adjustment, or modification by humans.
Tomatoes. Blueberries. If a tomato seed were to grow at a forest's edge, with no human to tend the plant, there would be no pesticide sprayed on it. There would be no synthetic fertilizer used to enrich the soil. The animals could eat it and it would not poison them, and the bugs could eat the vegetation, and nothing would harm them that was man made, or altered to produce a certain harmful reaction. Such as death.
If something is organic, that would mean that there were no synthetic means to create that product. Period. No loose ends. No way around it. No 50% minimum.
And definitely not Genetically modified!
I will leave the GMO equation for a later article, but natural should mean natural, not 'a naturally derived percentage', or a natural byproduct chemically altered to produce this product, or natural ingredients, along with chemical enhancements.
Things are either natural, and organic, or they are not. No company should be able to interpret the definitions to suit themselves, and make profit at the common man/woman's expense.
And a lie is a lie. If its not organic, or natural, then the label is a lie. Don't trust a liar. Any company willing to bend the rules to suit themselves will do so again.
Hm. Rant over.
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