Why did consumers really wanted-fair wages or health food in the 1965?

Question: Why did consumers really wanted-fair wages or health food in the 1965!?
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I am not sure that the term "health food" even existed in 1965!. True I would have been around 9 back then, but really, food and also consumer products were much simpler back then!.

You could buy vitamins and herbs and stuff though!. But health food, if the term existed, would have been more of a fad!. Oh, healthier food, or more natural food were in the vocabulary, even back then!.

You would have to find some old books on health from that era to back ant theory!.

As for wages, well lower income wage earners have been struggling for fairness and parity since the end of WWII!. In fact, if you read any decen Kennedy Biography, you will find that ine of JFK's campain promises was "a war on poverty"!. In fact, his VP Lyndon Johnson, wanted to build "The Great Society"!. Alas, all we got was the Vietnam War, which cost billions, and derailled all the anti-poverty programs!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Our food was filled with things we didn't know about, and few of us knew the food was not healthy!. The first famous "kook" (as we believed him to be) was the man who said cold breakfast cereal had no nutrition!. That was when they began to add vitamins and minerals, and to put labels on the packages, of their contents!.

But it was not a big deal until the late 70's/early 80's when we knew much more, and the children born in the 60's demanded healthy food!. "Health food" is still considered "kook" food by some people, yet those same people do not consider "healthy" food to be "kooky!."

Manufactured food has been "fixed" enough for the greatest majority of people, who can now see the list of ingredients, the exact calorie counts, the nutrition, and to make their own decisions!.

Fair wages were not hard to get, as far as I remember!. We were a fast growing economy, we were trying to beat the Russians at every turn, and the Japanese had not yet invaded our markets with their superior, smaller, lightweight radios and other goods!. So we were paid as good as we expected to get!. My father got union carpenter wages, and good benefits, doctor and dental insurance, we had new clothes, shoes, lots of food, but most parents slaved to save what they did not spend!. "Buying power" would not come until the 70's, with lower prices on "consumer goods" (we didn't even use that term in the '65) so "conspicuous consuption" had not been invented yet!. But we didn't feel poor!.

Back to the food!. We didn't feel underfed or ill-fed, either!. We really did think the "healthy food" people were kooks, just like people hated Ralph Nader for being a "know-it-all" and a "do-gooder," in the auto industry for safety--not to mention he was hated to taking a classic car off the road!.

It is because of Nader directly that the Congress has so much contol over the car industry, the oil industry, insurance, and anything else they can get their hands on!. In '65 the price of a new family sized car could be as low as $1500!.

We hated it just as much when Congress began messing with manufactured food!.

So, we had our wages; and we didn't want "health" forced on us, any more than we want it forced on us now!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

There was little manufactured food in 1965, meat contained no preservative, health food as a term did not exist, but food generally was better to eat than some of it is now!. I don't think the term consumers was coined then either!. Low income earners have always wanted fair wages, even now if you were offered a fair wage of a bottle of vitamin pills what would you choose!?Www@QuestionHome@Com