Comments on: Miracle Gro’s nonsense organic advert

By: steph

steph — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:39:39 +0000

i did report it to the asa, they claimed it wasn’t misleading, so i’ve submitted a second complaint backed by ‘Sense about Science’ and the ‘Voice of Young Science’…watch this space!

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:54:42 +0000

I blogged on a similar subject to this recently, pointing how people get so worked up about man-made pesticides but forget about the amounts of equally “toxic” natural pesticides they consume. People seem to get really hung up on artificial = bad, but I’ve never seen someone claim that something had “no chemicals” in it before, lol.

(You Say Organic Potato, I Say Poisonous Lump of Neurotoxins if you’re interested.)

By: Norbury

Norbury — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:55:39 +0000

I tried to send them an email from their website, but as I don’t have a ZIP code it won’t let me, even though I said my country was ‘other’ (they only have the choices of USA, Canada, Other).

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:37:42 +0000

Man thats a load of crap. It reminds me of a brand of health foods called Odwalla that claims to only use ingredients made without the use of biotechnology.

By: D. Corbett

D. Corbett — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:58:32 +0000

Done! Utter horseshit!

I love the fact they try to imply that because a pregnant woman is in the advert, and that the product is labelled “organic” it must be good for pregnant women and families. Based on what? 100% chemical-free!? That’s impossible. “Grows twice as big with lots of veggies” what does that even mean? They show a half-dead plant and a well grown plant and say that the “organic” fertiliser was the difference! Sorry guys, when I grow tomatoes in plain old dirt, they look and taste pretty damn good.

Utter nonsense. How is this tripe even allowed on TV?