When Vegetarianism Was Weird

In the 70s, if you didn’t eat meat, you were a freak

Samantha Kemp-Jackson
Life, Unvarnished.
Published in
6 min readApr 26, 2024

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A young woman holding a salad and looking unsure.

A revolutionary idea at the time

I remember when I first heard the term “vegetarian.”

In the mid 1970s, it was something that was as novel as colour TV sets and microwave ovens.

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Samantha Kemp-Jackson
Life, Unvarnished.

Writer, Media Commentator and overall opinionated individual. I live in the past A. Lot. Follow me on Substack: LivingInThePast.Substack.Com