Is the backlash against cheap "artificial" food a spontaneous and decentralized phenomenon, or is it intentionally directed by the organic industry or other corporate interests that want to scare poor people into buying more expensive food?

I think it’s mostly rooted in reasonable concerns about what’s actually being put in food, but a lot of it is also driven by woo-woo hippie bullshit, media hysteria, and people with legitimate eating disorders

I think the organic food industry mostly arose in response to consumer demand rather than the other way around, I could be wrong but I don’t think there’s anything particularly sinister in it, just ordinary food-related anxieties