I'm more concerned with the pesticides, antibiotics, and steroids.
I have no problem with other people's choices. I just really prefer my own. I could go on and on about people who are vehemently anti-organics. I believe they are at the heart of it, collectivist. They resent the "bourgeois"- ness of it all. They resent people with the means taking up land and resourses to produce quality, low-yeild foods, when the rest of the world needs to be fed cheaply, with mass-produced, high-yeild foods.
Food "fetishists", as you call them, are anti-proletariat, and are resented for that reason. Don't think this is not the case.
Do you really know what 'organic' means? It means there is a Carbon atom involved.
I don't resent anyone eating whatever they want, even if it's 100 year old duck eggs, or fugu soup, or bird's nest soup.
What I resent is them whining about it.
I made my money off selling fat rich men mostly raw goose liver from force fed geese. That's pretty bourgeois. I'm partial to it myself.
You have NO assurance that what you are eating is what you think it is unless you grow it yourself.
/johnny
Just don't regulate what I eat. Free range, deep fried, corn fed pig skins ain't cheap.
/johnny