[grey_whiskers]

My very strong opinion is that the "crunchy-con" thing is simply the glorification of personal preference, a shallow ideology that elevates appearance over content.

No, that's liberalism: I resisted becoming a crunchy-con for a LONG time simply because I suspected it of being a "shallow, personal glorification" thing.

I only accepted it when I found on empirical grounds, that there were elements of it which had a great deal more substance than I had ever suspected.

See also this link.

Cheers!

[Tax-chick]

I think you're confusing what is indeed factual, such as the benefit of certain nutritional supplements, with the ideology that claims certain foods, shoes, or other consumer products are "conservative" in a special way.