Ok, so I was already allergic to peas and lentils. Now I'm apparently allergic to Wegmans Organic chicken breast. Not all chicken, just Wegmans Organic. Baffling.
You know, that actually kinda makes sense. The chickens get all-vegetarian feed, but they still probably try to give them a lot of protein to make them big, so they might be using pea protein. Hmm...
strange - the only other person I know who has a problem with chicken can only eat the organic stuff. (Very sensitive to penicillin, which they apparently inject into the non-organic variety.)
As an aside, the fact that they use the term Organic always makes me giggle a little as a science and word geek. It makes me thing that the alternative are chickens made of plastic, vinyl, and styrofoam....
Aye. "Organic" and "Natural" - two meaningless words. I'm having a bad day at work, people ask if our vitamins are all natural, I assure them that there are no supernatural ingredients whatsoever.
Certified organic products conform to a series of regulations regarding soil quality, chemicals used in all stages of production including the final product at supermarket, and with animals it dictates what they are fed and that no antibiotics or hormones are used. The placement of "organic" on the package is also regulated - if it's on the front a certain percentage of ingredients must be organic, if it's on the back there are less organic ingredients, if only a couple ingredients are organic they'll just be in the ingredient list. Farms must be certified organic, which costs a lot of money, which is part of why organic food is more expensive and why sometimes you see products that say "no pesticides/hormones used" but without "organic", because the farm couldn't afford certification. There's also some regulation of "natural" but it's less stringent. I wrote a report on this in school, but if you bothered to Google something before making asinine assertions I'm sure you could find it pretty quickly.
Main Entry: 1nat·u·ral Pronunciation: \ˈna-chə-rəl, ˈnach-rəl\ Function: adjective
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10 a: growing without human care ; also : not cultivated b: existing in or produced by nature : not artificial
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12 a: having a physical or real existence as contrasted with one that is spiritual, intellectual, or fictitious b: of, relating to, or operating in the physical as opposed to the spiritual world
Definitions 10a and c: Nothing in a supermarket is natural. Everything has been touched by mankind in some way. Definition 12 Everything you see and touch is natural. This is what I mean by the words being meaningless. They may have been given some sort of further definition by the same legal system that told us tomatoes (look at the seeds inside, making them by definition fruits) are in fact legally vegetables, but the words themselves have no meaning.
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As an aside, the fact that they use the term Organic always makes me giggle a little as a science and word geek. It makes me thing that the alternative are chickens made of plastic, vinyl, and styrofoam....
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I wrote a report on this in school, but if you bothered to Google something before making asinine assertions I'm sure you could find it pretty quickly.
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1nat·u·ral
Pronunciation:
\ˈna-chə-rəl, ˈnach-rəl\
Function:
adjective
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10 a: growing without human care ; also : not cultivated b: existing in or produced by nature : not artificial
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12 a: having a physical or real existence as contrasted with one that is spiritual, intellectual, or fictitious b: of, relating to, or operating in the physical as opposed to the spiritual world
Definitions 10a and c: Nothing in a supermarket is natural. Everything has been touched by mankind in some way. Definition 12 Everything you see and touch is natural. This is what I mean by the words being meaningless. They may have been given some sort of further definition by the same legal system that told us tomatoes (look at the seeds inside, making them by definition fruits) are in fact legally vegetables, but the words themselves have no meaning.
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