[jonrick46]

I hate the prices of organic foods. People who do buy only organic foods think they are protecting themselves from getting cancer. They do not realize most that cancer is the results of DNA copy errors:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3538499/posts

High-energy radiation, such as x-rays, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta particles, and neutrons, can damage DNA play a large part of environmentally caused cancer. Up to 10% of invasive cancers are related to radiation exposure. Another environmental cause of cancer is tobacco. How many people smoke tobacco and buy at Whole Foods because they fear getting cancer? How many people lay out in the sun or go to tanning salons and buy Whole Foods’ organic to avoid cancer. Yet, there is little data that conventional methods of food production cause more cancerous outcomes. To me the entire organic industry is a marketing strategy playing on people’s uneducated fears.

[jjsheridan5]

People who do buy only organic foods think they are protecting themselves from getting cancer.

People buy organic foods for a wide variety of reasons, not just cancer prevention (actually, I have never heard people give that as a reason, but it doesn't come up much).

To me the entire organic industry is a marketing strategy playing on people’s uneducated fears.

To some degree, absolutely. Especially among wealthier, urban/inner suburb, food snobs. But there are a much less demonstrative, yet broader, group of people who tend to be very conscious of how food is prepared, and who are just trying to make the best, most informed, decisions they can. I wouldn't be so quick to judge them, since you are painting with a very big brush.

[DesertRhino]

“They do not realize most that cancer is the results of DNA copy errors”

Uhmmmm....That’s kind of the -definition- of cancer. That’s like saying most bacterial infections are the result of bacteria rapidly multiplying.

[nevergore]

I agree with almost everything you stated except tobacco....

There has never been a conclusive study, just anecdotal evidence....

Says the man who is now lighting up his gluten free, all natural, organically grown, sugar free and fat free cigar....