History’s Headlines: J.I. Rodale, prophet of organic farming | History’s Headlines

However most of America into the mid-Nineteen Sixties was satisfied frozen meals that have been raised with chemical compounds and pesticides have been the wave of the long run and so they had no objections. It was solely later with the rise of the so-called again -to-the-land counter-culture within the late 60s that concepts like these of Rodale and others struck a chord with many and got here into respectability within the courtroom of public opinion. Even those that discovered hassle with a few of Rodale’s extra outlandish beliefs and statements discovered fact within the considerations he had. The risks of overuse of chemical compounds and development hormones and pesticides have been uncovered in items like Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring.” That conflated with the concepts of Rodale and took him out half method from the class of quackery to be handled respectfully by “Life” journal, the “New York Instances” and Dick Cavett.

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