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Seems like conservation of expected evidence should apply here. Not eating organic food does have signaling implications, but it's so much more common that the signal should be a lot weaker.
This might not be true if you live in an area where organic produce is more common than average, though -- like a lot of middle-to-upper-class urban areas.
I probably should have thought this through more carefully-- there are people who think making a point of eating organic food is ridiculous, and talk about that opinion. At this point, I think they're into signalling territory, but that's about what they say more than about what they eat, I think.