if you haven’t done that yet look into “the green revolution”. The practice of blasting things with radiation is rather old. Some of the Most used crops are the product of that process, and yet are perfectly “organic”.

True, and the Green Revolution was amazing (and underappreciated), but I think the key point here is the concept of "deliberately throwing away what we did and recreating it another way", which to my knowledge wasn't done during the Green Revolution.