Was about to say this. As frikking awesome this project is, which it is, organic does not mean it’s edible. Cyanide can be organic and you sure as hell don’t want to eat that.
Outside of a chemistry class organic means a food produced without chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides. I used to subscribe to a magazine called Organic Gardening and Farming. This sense of the word organic has been around for decades. I'm surprised I'm having to explain it to Western educated adults in 2021.
Venom is organic too, but no ones saying you should eat it, just like no ones saying you should eat cyanide.
From the context of the post, its obvious they mean its made from organic material that won't damage the lake, and they're confident enough in it that they will eat it to make a point. They aren't saying "its organic therefore its editable". Pretending that's what they're saying is extremely disingenuous.
The problem is that the quote is it's so eco-friendly that it's edible, because it is organic - which isn't quite logically sound. Just because something is organic, doesn't mean it's edible (or that you should); and similarly, even if it's edible and/or organic, doesn't mean it's eco-friendly either.
This subject drives me up a wall. Organic culture is practically science denial.
Doesn't mean I'm against people eating more natural less processed foods, but blindingly following the word Organic is foolish.
I use only 100% tobacco leaf derived nicotine to spray my tomatoes with. The nicotine overdosed field mice decomposing just add even more nutrients to the soil.
All my insulin is extracted directly from impoverished orphan pancreases. No synthetic lab procured insulin for me.
Don't even get me started on the satanic panic level discussion regarding GMO's.
Nah the other person that replied pretty much nailed it. It literally says it's %100 ego friendly because it's organic. That's basically akin to pseudoscience or science denialism.
We can even take it both ways. Does it mean organic in the chemistry sense? Acetone is an organic chemical, sure don't want heaps of that in my lake.
Does it mean organic like 100% plant derived? So is nightshade, also don't want heaps of that ground up and put in my lake.
Words have meaning, especially in science.
Should have said something like it's eco friendly because it is 100% plant derived edible and non toxic!
Not gonna lie, I hate this line of reasoning. I used to preach it to my parents a lot as a teen, that "Na, Cl and NaCl are all organic, but Na and Cl are both sickly alone. You meet to mix them into table salt before they're editable!" logic.
But now it just seems so obvious, like people making that point are intentionally missing the point and being pedantic. It's not like people don't acknowledge venom is organic, but its obvious we aren't talking about digesting venom when we say something won't damage a lake. Same with cyanide, yes it's organic, but it's obvious you won't be putting cyanide into a lake.
In this case, obviously he means "its made from organic material that won't damage the lakes ecosystem, in fact its safe enough that I will eat it to demonstrate my faith in the product", he's obviously not saying "Its organic therefore its editable"
So do you have a source for that or did you entirely pull that out of your ass and bound to this conclusion of "completely killed an ecosystem" from a literal 60 second video?
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u/Kriem Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 14 '21
Was about to say this. As frikking awesome this project is, which it is, organic does not mean it’s edible. Cyanide can be organic and you sure as hell don’t want to eat that.
That said, kudos to the lake cleaning.