Made up of animal hides, tendons and bones. Not necessarily in that order.

Yum.

From Wikipedia....

Gelatin (from French gélatine) is a translucent, colorless, brittle, nearly tasteless solid substance, derived from the collagen inside animals' skin and bones. [...] It is in almost every "gummy" confectionery as well as other products such as marshmallows and some low-fat yogurt. [...] Gelatin is a protein produced by partial hydrolysis of collagen extracted from the bones, connective tissues organs, and some intestines of animals such as domesticated cattle, pigs, and horses.

Mmm, makes me want to go eat a bucket of S'mores, that does....

Organic means carbon-based, folks. It has been mis-appropriated by dipshits to mean something else.

Food raised on man-made fertilizer is still organic, in the true, chemical sense.

So your alternative to eating true organic is... rocks or water. Hope you flourish on that diet.

I eat through photosynthesis. I hope the sun doesn't prosecute me for war crimes.

Yeah yeah yeah, organic means "having a carbon basis," but language evolves. What does "All natural" really mean? Everything is all natural in one sense, be it cotton or rayon, since everything on this planet derives from nature, i.e., the world.

However, we know what food vendors mean when they label their food, "organic" or "all natural."

As for calling people "dipshits," why all the anger, Rev?

A crazy Swedish golfer was known to eat volcanic rocks (ground up, I believe).

I've ate seaweed right out of ocean (dark green branchy stuff that is sorta rubbery was the most palatable).

But that's to be expected.

Love the homage to Krazy Kat!

Words in English, and probably most other languages, can have more than one meaning.

That said, the potential for confusion between "organic = containing carbon atoms" and "organic = grown without artificial chemicals" is vast. I'm surprised some clever marketer hasn't slapped "organic" on some bag of edible sludge, on the grounds that it's made from carbon-based substances, and argued his case up to the Supreme Court.

As used in this comic, the word organic was indeed referring to being carbon-based. "Everything you eat needs to be organic" that wasn't meant to be some Whole Foods shopping enviro-foodie talking, just someone who understands the basics of metabolism.

Seems like you were just looking for an excuse to rant.

The Marsh Mallow plant. They actually had flavor and stuff too.

There's no "Tom" in this strip.

There's no bug, either.

And of course, there's also no "dancing bug" in this strip.

Even if there WAS a bug in this strip, dancing or not, bugs don't have or need names.

And although some bugs have movements we call "dancing" (e.g. bees), that's our label, not theirs.

So there's not even any such THING as a dancing bug anyway.

Yet we love this strip and flock here every Thursday, reading this before anything else on Salon. And what do we find today? "Doug," the made-up, non-existant, "unremarkable cartoon character" whose biography has been covered in-depth in a three part series on Salon; see

http://dir.salon.com/topics/ruben_bolling/2.html

...and we find that DOUG himself is completely making stuff up about his supposedly "organic" diet.

Now, THAT'S the genius of this strip! Bolling so rocks, and I would imagine that most of the Salon readership doesn't appreciate that he's as strong a contributor as, say, Glenn Greenwald.

Off to the store for marshmallows now!

"Organic means carbon-based, folks. It has been mis-appropriated by dipshits to mean something else."

You might want to check a "dictionary", a book that actually lists meanings of words.

Organic means a carbon compound - to chemists and scientists.

Perhaps it wasn't a good choice of word but the fact is that hundreds of millions of people use organic to mean "grown without chemical pesticides" (etc).

In Europe, the word tends to be "biologique" which is just as irrational (almost all food is biological).

But the people decide what a word means - not you. Get over it.

...and contain only sugar, not that metallic-tasting corn syrup. I make 'em with almond extract -- awesome!

on Doug's face when he pulls out the Rice Krispy Treats. Innocence lost. You can tell that after a few days of eating nothing but marshmallows, he was diggin' that dirt, dirty rice.

Ummm... so rocks and water are inorganic. Seriously, you're being a jerk to try to change the disucussion by reverting to esoteric jargon reserved for chemists. Look it up in the dictionary to find an accpetable popular use of the term "organic." On top of that, you're wrong. Minerals and H20 is chemically "organic" in the strictist sense of the word.

Damn, you're such an easy mark, why did I waste my time.

"I don't care if it leads to a cure for cancer and AIDS, animal research is wrong and must be stopped."

To which I respond, 'Well I hope you cancer and AIDS then'.

"I'm as ethical as the next bloke, but if I'm hungry I'll eat a panda sandwich."

Not only the language we use in everyday speech, the language which scientists use evolves, too. So yes "organic=carbon based" is what the term means in chemistry now - that wasn't always the case though. Berzelius used the term "organic chemistry" in 1807 for the study of compounds derived from biological sources [info from wikibooks.org]. Once it became apparent that inorganic compounds could be synthesized from organic compounds and vice versa, scientists changed the definition of the term, so that it would make good scientific sense again.

Tee hee!

"Any person who had to endure certain experiments carried out on animals which perish slowly in the laboratories would regard death by burning at the stake as a happy deliverance. Like everyone else in my profession, I used to be of the opinion that we owe nearly all our knowledge of medical and surgical science to animal experiments. Today I know that precisely the opposite is the case, in surgery especially, they are of no help to the practitioner, indeed he is often led astray by them." -----(Hans Ruesch, One Thousand Doctors (and many more) Against Vivisection.) Professor Henry J. Bigelow, Professor of Surgery at Harvard University.