How repugnant. Allowing environmentalists to introduce and define frankenfood to the English-speaking world is like asking Canada’s homosexual lobby to define marriage. Oh, right. How depressing.

Frankenfood, taken from Frankenstein, is no endearing term for genetically modified organisms(GMOs). Ironically, this new word is not used by those who create GMOs, or by people who work with or plant GMOs. It’s not used by those whose health benefits from GMOs. It’s not even used by the people who enjoy eating GMOs.

Frankenfood is used by the misguided Greenpeace, which thinks it knows more about the world than God. I can understand the misguided getting it wrong on GMOs. But I have trouble accepting that a respected organization that prides itself as a safeguard of the English language has decided this little slur deserves a place in the lexicon.

But this is the age we live in. Black is white, white is black. Good is bad and bad is good.

It is, however, necessary to note how dictionaries define new terms. They glean specific publications, especially popular newspapers, to pluck out new frequently used words and how the words are used. The trick is to know which publications the dictionary crowd scans and target your propaganda accordingly. The good news for activists is there is no propaganda filter to protect the language. The bad news for the rest of us is we get stuck with words like frankenfood.

Take the word environmentalist. The first environmentalists were farmers. They were committed to maintain the soil and not poison the water. But today, farmers are no longer environmentalists. By most left-wing media accounts, farmers run factories and pollute the rivers. The new environmentalists are from Greenpeace and a host of other propaganda machines who have lost their way in a spiralling shriek of hysteria because their true aim is to increase this year’s fundraising goals.

Even the authoritative Oxford dictionary has been snowed. It now defines environmentalist with reference, not to farmers, but, get this, Greenpeace, who, if they had it their way, would force farmers to preserve the natural ecosystem, leaving it alone untouched and intact. We would all be wearing grass skirts, living in mud huts and smoking pot.