‘Natural’ and ‘Organic’ Foods For example, to the health food faddists, white refined sugar is a dirty word. They much prefer raw sugar, brown sugar, or honey. The facts are that raw sugar cannot be obtained in this country because it is too filthy to be sold in interstate commerce, and brown sugar has no significant advantage from a 25 nutritional standpoint when compared to refined sugar. It is ironic that honey often is referred to as being organic—meaning, to the health food faddists, a substance that is grown without the use of agricultural chemicals such as pesticides and inorganic fertilizer. When one considers that bees have a range of several miles, Wouldn’t it be incredible if they would only be attracted to flowers 30 never treated with pesticides or artificial fertilizer?