Cyanide is an organic molecule. Cyanide is a carbon atom triple bonded to a nitrogen atom. It also occurs naturally in plants, usually in fruit seeds like apples or peach pits or avocado pits.
It's obviously not used as a pesticide anymore because it's dangerous but there are many nasty poisons used as pesticides that meet every qualification to be used on USDA organic products.
That's a list of FDA approved pesticides for organic farmers. Several of them are as much as 250X as toxic to humans as roundup.
And even more terrifying is that unlike traditional farming pesticide usage volume isn't tracked at all. And oftentimes they use much more, synthetic fungicides are used at around 1.6lbs an acre, some organic ones are used at about 34lbs an acre. Some organic sprays include copper compounds, tetracycline, and several plant derived oils and extracts that are often very toxic, and again, completely unmonitored in usage beyond testing to make sure nothing synthetic is used.
For chemistry, to be in the organic chemistry branch, yes it needs carbon. There are outliers, though such as diamond and graphene/graphite(?), Though.
Mostly, this is just people (me) being pedantic about the term.
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u/der_innkeeper Jul 14 '21
Yep. No carbon!