Organic food: Origin of the term.

In 1939, Lord Northbourne coined the term organic farming, out of his conception of “the farm as organism”, to describe a holistic, ecologically balanced approach to farming, in contrast to what he called “chemical farming”, which relied on "imported fertility" and "cannot be self-sufficient nor an organic whole. This is different from the scientific use of the term "organic," to refer to a class of molecules that contain carbon, especially those involved in the chemistry of life.

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