[4] Their activities include campaigning for local purchasing, public education on nutrition and certification of organic foods, and against intensive farming.

Reprinted numerous times, it became a founding text of the emerging organic food and farming movement and of the Soil Association.

[12] Lady Eve Balfour, Friend Sykes and George Scott Williamson organized a founders' meeting for the Soil Association on 12 June 1945 and about a hundred people attended.

British Union of Fascists member Jorian Jenks, who was closely associated with Oswald Mosley, was one of the founders.

Following Jenks' death in 1963, the association tilted towards the left of the political spectrum, especially under the new president, Barry Commoner.