Something else with certain GMO's that people neglect is that it includes anything engineered by man.

Take the tomato on your burger, even an 'organic' tomato is actually a GMO. Through years of selective breeding and agricultural engineering the cherry tomato, which is as close to non-GMO as it can be, became this mutated conjoined quadruplet we now know as a tomato.

I would like to see a caveat to GMO - genetically inserting herbicide, pesticide, etc. resistance into a food product is wrong. I see nothing wrong with genentically inserting the gene from blueberries that make blueberries blue into a tomatoe to enhanse the cyanocides that are known cancer inhibitors. There are positive health benefits and there are negative health benefits. Round-up ready corn, canola is not good for humans or animals. Almost all countries outside of the U.S. ban it. Japan will not import and round up ready hay or alfalpha. Just my opinion

I have often pondered the term Organic Chemistry.

@Leutrelle, Organic in organic chemistry is to differentiate molecules containing carbon atoms and those that do not(why choose 'organic'? idk), I only had a semester of it but the reactions are of organic compounds differ from those of inorganic compounds that are almost identical in structure, the typical comparison is molecules with silicon because it binds the same number of times as carbon.

FYI because someone may ask it, diamonds are not organic because they're pure carbon and not molecules with carbon, even with impurities there is no molecule it's just two substances integrated.

@zeliasgrand , that's one of mine as well. The whole gluten fad has gotten out of hand.

@zeliasgrand My sister has that celiac disease. For awhile she thought everyone she had a gluten allergy. It drove me nuts for a while. I think became marketing ploy

@DreadlySmart You got to schooled me again. Well done!

He defiantly can make you think.

@Leutrelle what really irritates me is now I will be compelled to study the issue....more work....

@DavidLaDeau He does that I love it. He lives up to his name

Yet. We don't have food people consider artificial yet, but we can print organs and other bio-matter. If I printed out a chicken leg in all it's meatiness would you consider it artificial?

@DreadlySmart whats the raw material you going to use

@Srijith, atoms that I'll build into the proteins that make up the meat. I need to get a list of all the atoms that are in all the proteins but who knows, I may be able to turn water and a chunk of rock with carbon, phosphorous, nitrogen and whatever else is present into a chicken leg.

Or I could clone the chicken leg, is a cloned chicken leg artificial?

@DreadlySmart cloned to me can not be called artificial. But, out of curiosity, can you clone just a chicken leg. The other one definitely is artificial or engineered or manufactured but definitely not natural.

@Srijith, clones are just grown from undifferentiated cells, if you control the differentiation and limit it to a chicken's leg then that's what you'll get. Granted this doesn't exist yet but it could and I know people have seriously considered 'meat farms' where the meat is grown separate from a living creature so nothing is slaughtered and presumably the waste product of typical livestock is almost entirely eliminated.

@DreadlySmart but basically it's a natural cell multiplication.

@Srijith, but "artificially" induced by mankind, which is why I'm trying to determine the line of artificial man-made versus natural man-made if there is one. I feel anything man-made still counts as natural.

@DreadlySmart it's like this sugar is processed by man but still is natural. However sweetener created by men is called artificial sweetener. The literal meaning of natural is one not created by man.