Lying like this, she fancied she could hear the orchard talking to her, telling her about the apples, and what trees should be grafted next. “She spread her arms wide, past the width of the blanket, and buried her hands in the long grass, stretching her fingertips to the cool dirt. Although the picture was not, Gabriel assumed, of the highest artistic value, and was cheap enough to reside at Greenglades, and though it could not be said to have a photographic reality, and though he suspected it of not being "good," he was drawn to look at it and could see the ripeness of the velvet, reckon the bursting crispness of the apples, and the feather had a certain quality that he had never before observed, just as the painted window offered something that he had failed to notice at all when looking through the real one: the texture, the tone, the way the light fell, the very glassness of the glass.” It showed two apples and a brown and white feather laid on a velvet cloth on a table placed by a window. Gabe stood in front of the fireplace and examined the painting that hung above the mantelpiece. The lawn gave way to a flower garden, itself fringed by a wood, so that the incarcerated had at least the consolation of a pleasant enough outlook. Beyond this, however, running a long arc down the gentle slope of lawn, camellias in unrestrained bloom provided an alternative tonic. “Beneath the window, set between gravel walkways, a few woody lavenders, etiolated rosemary bushes, and ornamental thyme made up the aromatherapy garden that he had seen described in the brochure. Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem You, me, and everything on land and sea are organic. Unless you personally know the farmer or the company selling the products, don't trust what you read. So be cautious the next time you buy anything labeled as 'organic'. If you go to jungles or forests untouched by man, you will see fruit and vegetables that look like they sprouted from trees from Heaven.
Chemical-free foods can look perfect if grown in your backyard. I have a friend who thinks that organic foods have to look beat up and deformed because the use of chemicals is what makes them look perfect and flawless. So, the next time you stroll through your local supermarket and see brown pears that are labeled as being organic, know that they could have been third-rate fare sourced from the last day of a weekend market, and have been re-labeled to be sold to a gullible crowd for a premium price. The word 'organic' comes from the word 'organism', meaning something that is, or once was, living and breathing air, water and sunlight. After all, all organisms on earth are scientifically labeled as being organic, unless they are made of plastic or metal. The truth is, the word 'organic' can mean many things, and taking a farmer to court would be difficult if you found out his fruits were indeed sprayed with pesticides.
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Either the apple tree itself is free from chemicals, or just the soil. If an apple is labeled as being organic, it could mean two things. You pay premium prices for products you think are grown without chemicals, but most products are. Most products labeled as being organic are not really organic. If I was a lawyer representing a company that had labeled its oranges as being organic, and a man was suing my client because he found out that the oranges were being sprayed with toxins, my defense opening statement would be very simple: "If it's not plastic or metallic, it's organic." I am using this example to touch upon the myth of organic foods. This means that you can deceptively use words with double meanings to sell a product, even though they could mislead customers into thinking your words mean something different. In a marketing class in college, we were assigned this case study to show us that 'puffery' is legal. The container is indeed 'light in weight'. In court, the lawyer representing the butter company simply held up the container of butter and said to the judge, "My client did not lie. She claimed to have gained so much weight from eating the butter, even though it was labeled as being 'LITE'. A few decades ago, a woman tried to sue a butter company that had printed the word 'LITE' on its product's packaging.
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