Here I thought that when I bought something that was labelled "Organic", it was 100% organic. Now I find out I was just another one of those suckers born every minute.

Except for the small independent farmers who are truly 100% organic, obviously this organic labelling thing is just another corporate scam to get people to pay more for something than it is worth.

"100% Organic" should be reserved for products with no artificial ingredients used at all, at any point in the production of the product.  Everything else should be labelled "Organic Lite" or "Contains Organic blah-blah Ingredients"; something that gives us poor sucker consumers some idea that the thing has additives in it that are NOT organic.

I wonder if there have been any allergic deaths from people eating something they thought was 100% organic but contained or was processed by the very additive they were trying to avoid due to an allergy.

If the article had not used the word "artificial" synonymously with "synthetic", then the article would have had merit.  As it stands, the whole issue has been completely disregarded and is simply an opinion without any basis.  There is not one bit of information about what qualifies as "synthetic" and up for debate and that which is "artificial" and can never be "organic".

I agree that this issue is a valid one, but you've just created a huge layer of confusion over the whole thing.

Throughout the years, I have asked about xanthan gum and ammonium bicarbonate and I've always been told that they were natural substances from nature.   How is it that they are now artificial and synthetic?