Is food the cause of Cancer, or is it Capitalism?

http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/09/top-10-most-unhealthy-cancer-causing-foods-never-eat-these-again.html

At this point in my life, I don't know what they expect us to eat... Every time I turn around, there's another article about how this food causes cancer, this food causes liver failure, this drink causes breast cancer, etc. It just doesn't end.

Let's be honest, when you're a student trying to get by, or you live in a low/middle class family where you shop sales because that's basically what you can afford, I don't know how you are supposed to avoid everything that is in the food we eat today.  As a university student, do you think that our cafeteria service is buying organic products and reading ingredient labels? probably not.

Unfortunately, we don't even know what we eat, and we're harming out bodies every single day with all of the crap we keep putting into it because the alternatives are not as simple as people want to believe they are.  And another thing, if I sat around worrying about everything that I put into my mouth, I'd be on narcotics.  Because it's not feasible for me to eat all organic, I can't spend my days reading the packages, and watching videos about what they do to genetically modify everything.  I'd never want to eat again.  The sad thing is, instead of companies using healthier alternatives, foods keep getting worse and worse, and the only other alternative is "organic" food which is not exactly organic in all cases, and is usually much more costly and does not go on sale like most food does.  for instance, broccoli comes on sale for a dollar sometimes, while the competitive organic broccoli is still somewhere around the $3-$4 mark. And understandably, local organic businesses need to make a living and survive, and it IS the healthier, better choice, but Economically, i can't do it.

I really with as communities, we could go back to farming, and actually together, own and maintain vegetation and crops, animals, and so on.  Farming is tough, and can be costly for one family if they're trying to support just themselves, keep up with the barn work, harvesting, watering, feeding, cleaning, and so on. Communities need to come together and find a more healthy, cost efficient way to eat REAL food, and I believe multi-family owned farms are the answer. Now I totally understand that we also have to work to make money due to our economically devastating community that has about a 5% millionaire to middle / lower class ratio.  The wealth is definitely not divided and definitely doesn't "Spread" very far.

I just look at our Capitalist market where everything is about MAXIMIZING PROFIT, which in turn, means boxes and packages of food get smaller, price goes up, healthier ingredients are replaced with whatever is the cheapest and will glue it together, animals and vegetation are ALL genetically modified to be bigger and grow 20x as fast to meet our insane demands for food.  Health has completely gone down the toilet because of these capitalist views and companies who are OBSESSED with money.

I truly applaud those in my community who create local homegrown, and organic products and I try to support them as much as possible.  I believe organic is the answer.   But I also believe that small local shops that have products that cost 3x the amount at shelf products, are not creating as big an impact because it then becomes a status problem.  Only those with money can afford to buy these products.

I think we need to take a bigger stand, and come together as a society and fight back against these corporations and capitalism, and create competitive priced organic products, but like I said, the only way we can do that is by doing this as a mass.  I know I would feel much better knowing that what I put into my mouth isn't activating another cancer cell with every bite.

I started this post about food, but I think with all of the sociology of Capitalism I have been doing, it really hit me that it's not just the food that's the problem, it's actually Capitalism.  If people weren't so obsessed with Money Money Money, if wealth was more equally distributed, if we ALL had the financial ability to afford organic products, and help those who don't a little, I mean, we could actually make a difference.  People survived just fine years ago before all of this GMO BS came out. What changed? Capitalism did. Insatiability did.  MORE MORE MORE did.

In the end, I kind of think Capitalism is a cancer. It keeps spreading, growing, and affects everyone.  Only a few benefit from it, the rest, they're just victims of the system.