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@malacandran wrote:

 

    Isn't all our food  "organic"?  Because  it's made of "organisms" that we've killed.  So that we can eat them.

The organisms may be cows, pigs,sheep, fish, lettuces, tomatoes or strawberries.  It doesn't matter what species they are.  We eat them.  To satisfy our hunger. As we have always done.  And as long as our hunger gets satisfied - and we have a full belly - what else matters?

All this modern talk about  so-called "organic food"  is just a recent fad.. A product of industrial civilisation.  And mechanised farming, which gives us more than enough to eat.  So we can relax in an abundance of food.

But if we were hungry, would we be bothered where our food came from?

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No - in simple terms organic food is exactly as you describe, organisms that weve killed, nothing added - non-organic foods in addition to the organic part also contains inorganic compounds.

I suppose it is fair to call the uptake of organic food as a recent fad although it should be recognised that until the industrialisation of the West and the large increase in the population most foods were organic.

If we were hungry then the source of our food would indeed probably be the least of our worries but whilst we're not then the choice is and will continue to be available.  Given an affordable choice I will select organically grown foods, where the choice is not affordable or in my opinion not good value I will choose industrially produced items rather than go hungry.