Organic food: Late 1960s and early 1970s anti-Vietnam war protests, social and political background notes

Organic food: Late 1960s and early 1970s anti-Vietnam war protests, social and political background notes

by James K. Sayre

Part of the hippie and protest movement wanted healthier more organic food to eat, not the processed manufactured TV-dinner-style foods that many Americans had come to enjoy in the 1950s and 1960s. Vegetarianism gained a new foothold in America. The notion of growing food with any artificial chemicals, pesticides, herbicides or other poisons became more popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. : Background sketch

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