When the Lights Go Out

[emordnilap]

The "organic" word meant something entirely different when I was at Uni.

We studied organic chemistry and it was then the study chemistry of carbon based molecules. Mostly the starting point for these molecules was oil and oil derivatives!

So now that the organic movement shuns oil based fertilisers it is hard for chemistry students to understand what we mean by "organic" chemistry!

I never liked the word anyway. In conversation I always try to get in 'normal' farming as opposed to 'toxic' farming somehow.

I also definitely with a capital d do not like toxic farming being referred to as 'conventional' farming. Talk about hijack of a word! Conventional farming is traditional, pre-mass-chemical farming.