I'd also like to disagree with those who claim that the countercultural food
movement died after the 1970s. Organic/sustainable agriculture, opposition
to bioengineered foods, the slow-foods movement, etc. are all in the same
anti-modernist ideological tradition as both the pre-and-post-1960s health
foods movement.



Michael:

I look forward to reading your article. Your above statements, however, appear
to me to disagree with Warren Belasco's views presented in "Appetite for
Change." Warren points out that the core of the countercultural movement was
the hippies, who stressed communial experiences. J. I. Rodale et al in organic
gardening promoted the Jeffersonian ideal of the yeoman farmer, which is very
different.

Lumping very diverse groups who espouse very different ideals --communes, small
organic farmers, anti-gmo and anti-globalization types -- simply because you
define them as "anti-modernist" doesn't seem to me to be particularly helpful
or insightful. Or am I misunderstanding your point?

Andy Smith