DailyDirt: Weird Foods That Are Also Natural And Organic
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
In the strict chemical sense, it's actually not that easy to find inorganic foods (ie. foods that are not organic). But you might find some if you practice geophagy. Here are just some examples of foods made from all-natural ingredients.- Coffee made from beans excreted by civets seems to be pretty popular. But the knock-off coffee made from chemically-digesting coffee beans (in lieu of the animal-digested beans) doesn't sound so bad, actually. [url]
- How about some artificial-meat made out of protein... extracted from human feces? When they're extracting the protein, maybe they should also extract the undigested pharmaceuticals while they're at it. [url]
- Eating marine mammals like dolphins might be a growing trend for poorer nations. Making dolphin hunting illegal, however, is probably not the right response. [url]
- Eating dirt is called "geophagy" -- a practice that expectant mothers sometimes engage in. Yum! pfft! [url]
- Speaking of mothers... A flavor of ice cream with a "yuck" factor twist: Baby Gaga ice cream is made from human breast milk. It's also probably the most expensive ice cream you've never wanted to taste. [url]
- To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]
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Natural and organic - what is not ?
DDT is orgainic, Snake venom is natural and organic, so is plutonium, "the plague" is organic.
The sun going supernova is natural, as is the KT boundry meteor strike.
AIDS, bird flu, and all virus's are 'natural and organic'.
oh wait, lightning is natural, it must be 'good for you'.
Or arsnic and cynide
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Re: Natural and organic - what is not ?
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The trouble with “Organic” stuff ...
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Re: The trouble with “Organic” stuff ...
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Yes, vague as any popular catch phrase can be,
"organic chemistry" which is basically the branch of chemistry that has anything to do with Carbon.
But you are right Michael, it is specifically vague, what you would call a "feel good" catch phrase, same applies to natural, or from 'nature' and what is not from "nature".
So next time you're attacked by a shark you can say it was ok because the shark was 'natural and organic'.
(your point is well taken).
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When I was at high school...
Inorganic meant
- stuff like salt
- often coloured unless anhydrous
- simple to understand
- unlikely to kill you before you graduated
Organic meant
- stuff like benzene
- probably coame from oil
- mostly it stank
- often it was highly flammable
- teacher insisted on leaving the room before we started ("you kids only do this once, it's every week for me !")
- mostly carcinogenic (or else not yet proven carcinogenic)
Then a few years later the word "organic" suddenly seemed to start meaning "natural", "good" and "wearing sandals".
How did that happen ?
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I find it interesting that nobody thinks a baby drinking breast milk is disgusting, but yet suggest that an adult taste it and people start to gag. It was even used as a joke on Friends where Joey takes a drink of breast milk to the disgust of all the others.
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