>>1063434The problem here is that the word "chemical" has two distinct definitions to two different groups of people.
Scientifically speaking just about everything on earth is made of "chemicals."
Chemical - (noun) A chemical compound is an entity consisting of two or more atoms, at least two from different chemical elements, which associate via chemical bonds.
Table salt (the kind you put on your food) is sodium chloride, a chemical compound with the formula NaCl. It is made of two elements, sodium and chloride, held together in an ionic bond.
In this sense it is impossible to "farm without any chemicals."
Chemical in lay person terminology means a generally unpronounceable string of pseudo-latin words produced/processed/purified by man. An item that can only be obtained via a factory or laboratory, one not easily created by things found in the wild.
It's an incredibly vague definition/category that relies mostly on familiarity.
Here is what I mean by familiarity. Water is a chemical composed of oxygen and hydrogen held together by covalent bonds. The scientific name is dihydrogen monoxide. If I went to the store and asked for a bottle of dihydrogen monoxide the clerk would probably point me to their cleaner and solvent section... despite me asking for a bottle of water. Because the scientific name sounds "like a chemical."
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