What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 291 points –
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Organic food? Please let me take that out of your list. Organic produce has a huge lot of benefits over industrial, to both the consumer and the environment.

All it takes to qualify for the organic label is a payment to the right industry group.

That's another thing. That's organic certification.

You're fighting for semantics, but the other guy is right here. Organic labeled food and "organic food" can be used interchangeably

Maybe in the US or the EU.

All food is organic. Every bit of it is made of carbon building blocks.

That's another meaning for the word "organic".

All food is organic. Unless you have a crop like a chicken (you don't), you really shouldn't put any inorganic materials in your body.

That's another meaning for the word "organic".

What is

Organic means both chemical compounds that contain carbon and a form of agriculture that complies with certain standarda