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Re:Food Practices Banned in Europe But Allowed in the US by Zmetta on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @12:12PM (#5675021)
|"You know how arsenic goes inorganic—and thus poisonous—in chickens' guts?"

Correct chemistry but perhaps misleading to non-chemist readers. This is one reason that I oppose product labels advertising "green, organic, natural" products. I cannot help but think that some fickle readers will draw some association between inorganic and poisonous.

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Re:Food Practices Banned in Europe But Allowed in the US by mjn on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @06:00PM (#5677238)
I prefer the German and Scandinavian descriptor "ecological food", rather than "organic food", partly for that reason.
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Re:Food Practices Banned in Europe But Allowed in the US by derleth on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @12:55PM (#5675324)
> I cannot help but think that some fickle readers will draw some association between inorganic and poisonous.

Which is exactly the intended reaction. The Organic Industry is big business now.

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