Thursday, May 9, 2019

I find the last article a little suspicious because the organic food movement started in California

Where did the organic foods movement start really? It really got going around farmers near Santa Cruz, California and the big Food Co-ops started through universities like in Berkeley, California in the 1960s. However, the organic foods movement had many people interested in California long before that.For example, my father became a vegetarian for health reasons in 1934 when he was only 18 but studied a lot because he was valedictorian of his senior high school class. And Jack LaLane also championed health foods and was a student of Paul Bragg like my father also was in the 1930s and 1940s. And I suppose you could take all this back to Dr. Kellog in Battle Creek, Michigan from around the turn of the century if you want to go back that far. Paul Bragg was a student of Barnard McFadden who was a student of (maybe Kellog in Battle Creek?) Not sure about this. But, I'm sure that my father and Jack LaLane studied with Paul Bragg and I'm sure that Paul Bragg studied with Bernard Mcfadden around the turn of the century(early 1900s).

But, the point is the organic foods movement had many peaks and valleys going back to the 1800s and all that. But, places like San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles And San Diego were big supporters of health foods and organic foods almost always for some reason. Maybe it's the out of doors life style of the California Coastals from San Diego up to San Francisco and beyond.

In the 1950s when I was a child I met Paul Bragg that my father had studied with at "Foods for Life" which was an organic food store there in Glendale, California at that time near the Chiropractic College there then. Maybe around 1956 when I was 8 or something like that.

In fact, I still use this product by Bragg all these years later now which is a soy sauce type of product:

bragg's soya bullion from www.amazon.com
 Rating: 4.3 - ‎520 reviews
Vegetable protein from soybeans & purified water. Directions. Follow usage directions on label. Legal Disclaimer. While we work to ensure that product ...

What I like to use it for is for a lemon and oil dressing for salads or last night I put it on popcorn with butter and parmesan cheese for a saltier flavor. 

If I make lemon and oil dressing, first I make the salad, then I put lemon juice, 2nd I put Bragg liquid aminos and last I put olive oil on the salad. The Olive oil which gives it a mediterranean type of feel and is good for lubricating your intestines which makes you healthier. So, lemon and oil and Braggs Liquid aminos is a good healthy dressing for your salads if you like it that way. But, if you aren't used to it be sure to put a little  at a time until you get to the taste you want.


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