I think it is fine that the OP is concerned about toxic substances in his environment...I agree it is a good thing, to a point. The increasing life spans over the past decades make a lot of environmental arguments hard for me to believe. The stress over worrying about a lot of these issues will shorten our lives more than any toxicity we actually encounter. I am 65 years old and in good health but will more than likely be dead in 20 years or less, nothing I can do about it. Most organic food labeling is just a racket, ie someone certifies that someone else produced said food a certain way. We as consumers have no clue as to validity of said certification. If you think you do then I have some certified, non toxic, edible gun oil for you...Of course it costs 4 times the price of regular gun oil because the certifying entity has to be rewarded and paid for any liabilities arrising out of future labeling validity litigation.
The snake oil salesmen never left, just changed their names. Good luck to you sir in your quest for good health and organic gun oil. It would be ironic in a self defense scenario to lose ones life with a sticky slide because of organic oil. Kind of like bicyclists getting run over while staying in great cardio condition. Definitely a conundrum. lol
Organic absolutely does mean something, quite a lot actually. It's like anything else, you have to know your source, but organic food tests significantly higher in nutrients. And avoiding chemicals in everyday products is a no brainer. I don't need chemicals in my soap and shampoo, and I certainly don't need all the carcinogenic cleaning products. You want to talk about irony, and that's people who use those new air disinfectants to kill bacteria in the air when the disinfectant itself is 100% more harmful than 99.9% of the bacteria.
And it's not just the increased nutritional value, it's the lack of pesticides. The crap they put on our produce should be illegal, and in some countries it is. And don't even get me started on GMOs. That's another thing that organic automatically avoids, as GMOs aren't allowed to have #9 organic labels. Besides buying certified non GMO organic, there's absolutely no way to know what is and what isn't, as companies have no legal requirement to label GMOs.
Concerning dying in a SD situation because my slide froze up, I already stated I will continue to use mil comm on my defensive weapons, of which I have three. My CC, my backup, and my house gun. Everything else will get whatever oil I come up with, as a money saving effort as much as a health conscious one.
But, I'm starting to experiment with some vegetable oils mixed with some non toxic food grade additives (fatty acids mostly), and the initial results are amazing. I'm using an old Bersa as a test gun, and this new blend I'm trying is amazing. I've never had that slide feel slicker. I even stuck it in the deep freezer at 0* F, and it didn't effect it at all. Smoke point is around 450* F, which is higher than some synthetics, and I know a way to get it up to 550* F by switching to a more refined oil. The trick now is to wait and see if it's going to gum up or not. Cost to produce is under a dollar per ounce. Oh, and it dissolves carbon!!! I put it on a clean gun, and I mean squeaky clean, and it pulled a bunch of carbon out of it. And it definitely conditioned the metal, as the gun now feels like it's coated in teflon and even looks shiny.
