organic

a type of food that is grown naturally without any preservatives.
i bought all organic vegetables from the farmer’s market this morning.
to be grown or created without the use of perservatives or any un-natural substances.
those carrots i bought are organically grown.
1) in chemistry, a term used to describe any molecule held together by a chain of carbon atoms.

2) used to describe the characteristics of a living system (for example a creature’s body or an entire habitat) consisting of smoothly running interacting parts and shaped by the processes of darwinian evolution.

3) as an -n-logy in the creative process, used to describe a work such as a novel or movie script made in such a way that the various parts developed as they were written/painted/whatever, one from another, rather than sticking rigidly to a preconceived plan.

4) in popular culture, a term applied in line with the most rabid intentions of new age pseudoscience, ultimately from the mouths of people who would like to have scientists burned at the stake. much favoured by people who use chemical as an unqualified snarl word. artificial fertilisers are decried as poison, despite the fact that they contain the same chemical compounds that plants derive from “natural” fertilisers; if these compounds were real poisons, our biosphere would have been in serious doo-doo long ago. anything coming from a lab is allegedly ipso facto evil and foul, even if its molecular structure is identical to that of compounds found in nature. genetic engineering is seen as the foul left hand of satan, based on arguments that are about as rational as those for the existence of the fellah downstairs, too. organic farming is held by its propagandists to be the farming of the future … and it might be, at least if the human population of the earth drops by 99 percent. typical stock in trade arguments from the “organic” movement, as elsewhere in the witchypoo “alternative” movement, consist of appeals to fear, to irrationality and to conspiracy theories about big business … but, such has been the success of the propaganda campaign over the last few decades, n-body seems to subject “organic” produce to the same safety standards. “organic” production requires far more acreage than conventional farming methods to produce the same yield. it is typically shilled for by celebrities, who after all often have more money than sense and can afford to buy the stuff, and much beloved of fad dieters who don’t eat that much anyway. all in all, one of the movements that make one genuinely fearful for the future of our technological civilisation.
cobra venom is an organic molecule.

the book just developed organically.

if your carrots are organic, are you sure you have washed off absolutely all the horse-sh-t?
granola eating, tree hugging, tie-dye making, hemp wearing, berkeley native. barely even brush their hair or shave; practice poor hygiene. generally bare a resemblance to tarzan, king of the jungle. related closely to the vegan, but a more obtuse form.
john: “so why’d you and ari break up?”

mark: “dude. she never shaved her legs. that’s just too organic for me…”

john: “that’s messed up.”
a marketing strategy.
go green! buy organic!
another form of expression to describe a statement that someone has said to be fresh or original.
guy: what side of the cat has fur? the outside!

guy: yeah man, that sh-t right there is f-ckin’ organic! who the h-ll thinks of that!
a tax on the gullible.
1. i always pay more for organic because they don’t have ddt, brb or omg in them. you don’t have to be a rocket surgeon to know that makes sense!

2. organic apples do cost twice as much but they’re so worth it! they’re hand-picked by sterile forest gnomes riding unicorns!
to have s-x without a condom or without protection.
she offered full-service that was organic, not covered.

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