Pesticide-free should be the label used. All food is organic because all food contains carbon. If food producers wanted a label for pesticide-free, they should have picked a term that didn't already scientifically describe all food.

Yes. I gather you didn't pay much attention in science class. That's ok. The world needs people to make and serve fries at McDonald's too.

Organic means something contains carbon. That's it. That's science. I should be perfectly able to call my jam organic because unless I made it out of rocks, it is organic.

So just eat food that is "pesticide-free".

Yes. I fully understand that words can have multiple meanings. It just seems rather silly to take a word that already encompasses ALL of something and try to re-purpose it to apply to only a subset of that something.

Sorry. My bad. So that I'm properly educated on the matter, what sort of advanced academic work does one do in Linguistics when not laying the smack down on Internet commenting threads for people who like their scientific terms to retain the meaning they've held for hundreds of years?

Soooo....we already have a word that describes all food (and everything else with carbon in it)...organic. But we're going to repurpose that word to apply to only a subset of food produced in a particular fashion, but no one really is keeping a sharp eye on what exactly that is? Ok. Makes a lot of sense to me.

Yeah. I was an English major too until I switched to Environmental Studies.

There's a sign along Route 22 in Ohio for a place that claims to have "organic spring water". That one drives me nuts too. CH2O is NOT good for you!

Well. Excuse me for paying attention in science class.

Uh, unless someone is chowing down on a pile of rocks, everyone IS eating organic food.

I've always found it easy to let a girl know I was interested in a relationship with her.

Who the fuck is Mike Francesa?

And after the spanking...

Holy balls...do all you idiots at Deadspin want to lick the balls of the entire NBA while shunning cool stuff like professional wrasslin' and hockey? The Ultimate Warrior was awesome. Wrasslin' isn't supposed to make any sense. It's just supposed to be dumb, stupid fun, and he epitomized that!

I never knew so many people were so passionate about women's sports.

Hey now, don't you dare lump Adam Levine in with the rest of us "white guy[s]". We don't want him.