Food for Dissent
Food for Dissent In the 1960s and early 1970s, countercultural rebels decided that, rather than confront the system, they would create the world they wanted. Through a politics of principled…
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Food for Dissent
In the 1960s and early 1970s, countercultural rebels decided that, rather than confront the system, they would create the world they wanted. Through a politics of principled shopping, eating, and entrepreneurship, food revolutionaries dissented from corporate capitalism and mainstream America. The natural foods movement grew out of this contrarian spirit.
Guided by an ideology of ethical consumption, these institutions and actors spread the movement's oppositionality and transformed America's foodscape, at least for some. In Food for Dissent, Maria McGrath traces the growth of the natural foods movement from its countercultural fringe beginning to its twenty-first-century food revolution ascendance, focusing on popular natural foods touchstones--vegetarian cookbooks, food co-ops, and health advocates. Yet this strategy proved an uncertain instrument for the advancement of social