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🗓️ 23 August 2019
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Today we discuss an important topic: organic vs. synthetic...what does it ACTUALLY mean? I think it's very important we understand the definitions of these words so when we hear arguments or statements made, we understand the potential flaws in thinking, or the misunderstanding of what is actually being talked about.
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Today we have an episode. I'll tell you that much and it's going to be a bit of a doozy. |
0:07.0 | I'm going to talk about organic products and if they are safer than chemical products and we're going deep on this |
0:16.0 | one because I think that many people don't have the correct understanding of what these words actually mean. |
0:24.4 | Now, I'm trying to put the real definitions out there |
0:30.0 | so that you can make your own decision from there. |
0:32.5 | So let's go ahead and get into today's episode. |
0:35.9 | So there is a popular belief that quote unquote natural or quote unquote organic products |
0:41.4 | are just simply superior to and safer than any product that is made with a quote-unquote chemical. |
0:49.2 | I'm using the quotes very deliberately here. |
0:51.8 | So you can see this all over the place, everything says |
0:54.7 | the word organic on it, and this is what we have to do before we can even analyze that |
1:00.4 | statement right there, that organic products are better than chemical products. So here's the real |
1:05.8 | truth. The true definition of these words, right? Chemical, what is a chemical? It's |
1:12.3 | hard to define this in the dictionary, but what's important |
1:17.0 | to realize is that everything on the planet Earth and in the universe itself is composed of chemicals. So water is a chemical. |
1:26.8 | Everything is a chemical. So that is something that you really have to |
1:30.5 | understand when you're using these terms. |
1:33.2 | And already you're starting to see |
1:35.1 | how this organic versus chemical |
1:37.1 | needs to be broken down to a more specific definition |
1:41.2 | to really understand the point that is actually trying to be made. |
1:45.3 | So we've defined chemical, basically everything on earth is composed of a chemical or is a chemical |
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