Since the early 1900’s people started responding to the infusion of chemicals into our food supply. The organic food movement began as a result of the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides in the early days of industrial agriculture. (http://theorganicsinstitute.com/organic/history-of-the-organic-movement/).
Later on, to name a few, there were people such as Rudolf Steiner who developed biodynamic agriculture, an organic farming method (http://www.rudolfsteinerweb.com), Alice Waters, who is a pioneer of the organic food movement in the US and the originator of the infamous Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, and there was Weston A. Price, a dentist in the 1930s, who traveled the world and discovered that indigenous people who consumed only real food—pure nutrient-dense traditional foods, were far healthier than the western population (www.wapf.com), The slow food movement was also a group evolved in reaction to our changing food economy (http://www.slowfoodusa.org).
